Month May 2004

Nader /Camejo 2004? From a public Green email list “Nader is going to announce his VP choice before the <National Green Party> Milwaukee convention. Word is that <Peter> Camejo is on the very short list.” The above, while unconfirmed, is…

A hero retires from public service Nelson Mandela gives farewell speech to parliament As he stepped down from the platform for the very last time, the assembly chamber erupted into applause, chanting and singing.

More prisons where torture happened? Reports are surfacing now of similar treatment at another U.S. detention center in Iraq called Camp Bucca. According to these reports, Iraqi prisoners in Camp Bucca were beaten, humiliated, hogtied, and had scorpions placed on…

Army Times says Rumsfeld should resign The independent Army Times newspaper, read widely in the U.S. military, on Monday suggested Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon civilian and military leaders should be removed over the Iraq prisoner abuse…

Red Cross report describes abuse in Iraq The Red Cross has made a point, these past few days, of saying the abuse and torture was NOT isolated because it was “too widespread” for that. A Red Cross report disclosed Monday…