Day December 13, 2005

Row over CIA ‘torture’ flights engulfs Blair

Tony Blair and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, were under pressure last night to refute convincingly claims that Britain has been complicit in alleged use of CIA planes to take suspected terrorists for torture in secret camps abroad. They can’t…

Dumb and dumber

Australian PM John Howard says Sydney riots won’t hurt country’s image AND he denies racism had anything to do with the riots. Goodness no, race clearly has nothing to do with it. The young men appeared to be of Middle…

Dear wingnuts

Thanks so much for your hate-filled rages against Tookie. Writing a comment here saying "the n****r must die" adds so much to the debate. Sadly though, all such comments never got posted because I deleted them. So, your thoughtful messages…

Tookie Vigil

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political commentator, said the decision was determined by the governor’s faltering political fortunes. "He’s a conservative Republican, he’s up for a tough re-election next year and he needs the Republican base," he said. "This country puts…

Neocons confused by freedom

Pity the poor neocons, they can’t quite grasp that there is a difference between lobbyists and journalists. ‘Freedom of the press’ is a concept that apparently eludes them completely. I mean, they claim to want to make Iraq free but…