Month May 2004

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…

The pixie witch Lynndie England, 21, a rail worker’s daughter, comes from a trailer park in Fort Ashby, West Virginia, which locals proudly call “a backwoods world”. She faces a court martial, but at home she is toasted as a…

Critics pressure Rumsfeld to resign Front page, LA Times website Pressure mounted today on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to step down, as a clash erupted between the White House and the Pentagon over the handling of the Iraq prison…