Day December 1, 2004

Red Cross accuses US military of Guantanamo torture

Red Cross investigators had found a system devised to break the will of prisoners through “humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions.” “The construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot…

Spontaneous uprising in Ukraine?

Yeah, right… Otpor, the group that overthrew Milosevic, received some funds from the U.S. government via the National Endowment for Democracy and the Agency for International Development. Veterans of Otpor helped train the Kmara movement in Georgia, the Zubr movement…

Lycos fights spam with web bombing

In a new take on fighting spam, Web portal Lycos Europe has launched a screen saver designed to bombard Web sites promoted in unsolicited e-mail. A graphic on the Lycos Europe site advertises the ability of its customers to “annoy…