Month: December 2005

UN Rights Chief Takes Aim at U.S.

It wasn’t too long ago that the Bush administration and its anti-United Nations allies were working feverishly to bring about the dismissal of Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the UN’s International Atomic...

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CBS Movie on Pope John Paul II

In approximately 2,000 years there have been 265 popes of the Roman Catholic Church. The pope is the Bishop of Rome, who is considered “primus inter pares” (first among equals) among the thousands of bishops of the...

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Put the Flacks’ Feet to the Fire

Real History Lisa sent an e-mail today about Frank Rich’s new Sunday column: “Kristina Borjesson, cited by Frank Rich in the article below, is the woman who put together “Into the Buzzsaw,” a collection of essays on...

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CIA Black Prison on British Territory

The revelations in  the US blogsphere about the CIA “rendering” suspects in the “war on terror” to prisons on European countries’ territories was a shock to some. Now Jack Staw,  the...

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