Day May 22, 2004

Molly Ivins: How fascism starts Syndicated columnist Molly Ivins is a left-tilting Texas Democrat who specializes in witty, humorous columns skewering the right, which makes her deadly serious May 20th column even more extraordinary. (These are excerpts, read the whole thing) “How…

Little Shop of Horrors US probes eight homicides in Afghanistan prisons The official said eight prisoner deaths have been “classified by medical authorities as homicides, which involve suspected assaults of detainees either before or during interrogation sessions that may have…

Berg beheading: No way, say medical experts “I certainly would need to be convinced it [the decapitation video] was authentic,” Dr John Simpson, executive director for surgical affairs at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, said from New Zealand. <It…