Day June 4, 2004

The Iraqi Horror Picture Show The ever-talented Cara Scissoria just added six more collage-style political greeting cards to her website! (Full disclosure: I’m webmaster for her site)

U.S. told Saudis to let Al-Qaida gunmen escape says official Saudi authorities gave safe passage to three al-Qaida gunmen after the they killed 10 of the hostages they were holding at a hotel in the oil hub of Khobar, a…

Curiouser and curiouser Let me get this right, Tenet has resigned while Chalabi is still standing? Chalib appears to have his hand in everything and to be working for and/or double crossing everyone. Or is he? There are whole levels…

The prison house of nations From a Workers World newsletter On May 27 the U.S. Justice Department issued an alarming but not surprising report. The report documents that by the middle of 2003, one out of every 75 men in…

Marines get wrist-slaps for torturing Iraqi prisoner Two U.S. Marines have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to charges of abusing an Iraqi prisoner who threw trash by shocking him with 110 volts of electricity at a jail south…