Month May 2004

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…

Pentagon says Rumsfeld OKd harsh interrogation methods It was the first official acknowledgment that Rumsfeld had been personally involved in the development of interrogation policies for war detainees.

Top-gaining Google search phrases Week ending May 17 #1 Nick Berg#5 Lynndie England The Nick Berg video, it’s safe to say, is the most downloaded file in the history of the Internet, with nothing else even close.

This land is your land. This land is my land. And it’s time to take back our land. The tortures weren’t isolated, it wasn’t just ill-trained backwoods privates. As many previous stories and the following shows, it was way too…

Democracy Conference, NYC The Democracy Conference was held last weekend. It was sponsored by The Nation and the New Democracy Project (founded by Mark Green, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and others) Email from Melanie Votaw, (author, photographer, wordsmith) “Rep. Jesse Jackson…