Day May 7, 2004

Orwell would love the upcoming Republican convention Via MediaChannel.org newsletter Bush plans to lock down NYC for convention AP reports: “Midtown Manhattan around the site of the Republican National Convention could be locked down for blocks, with major avenues closed…

Seymour Hersch: “It’s going to get much worse” On O’Reilly, of all places. First of all, it’s going to get much worse. This kind of stuff was much more widespread. I can tell you just from the phone calls I’ve…

The Walls of My Old Cell by Maria Guardado ( who was was kidnapped, brutally tortured, and left for dead by American-assisted death squads in El Salvador.) If the wallsOf my old cell spokeThey would be loyal witnessOf my public…

American gulag Sidney Blumenthal in the Guardian Bush has created what is in effect a gulag. It stretches from prisons in Afghanistan to Iraq, from Guantánamo to secret CIA prisons around the world. There are perhaps 10,000 people being held…