Month June 2004

Your tax dollars at work Torturing Iraqi prisoners. On orders from higher-ups. Oh, excuse me, the official line is the dogs were used to “scare” prisoners. Yeah, if you were naked in a prison and ripped bloody by an attack…

SEC probing Halliburton ‘bribes’ “A Halliburton subsidiary is under investigation by the US stock market regulator over allegations it paid bribes for Nigerian gas contracts. Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) and three other partner firms allegedly paid $180m in bribes,…

The Reagan Mournathon didn’t work No bump in the polls for Bush from it. Had Reagan died a year ago, there woud have been a big bump up for Dubya. But no longer. Bush’s steady slide down continues unabated.

Seymour Hersch: “You haven’t begun to see evil…” The scariest part: “[Hersh] said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, ‘You haven’t begun to see evil…’ then trailed off. He said, ‘horrible things done to children of…

Britain election: Blair clobbered, Bush next? Labour loses over 460 council seats. Tories +263, Lib Dems +132 As deputy prime minister John Prescott confessed, Labour was given a serious kicking by voters who delivered it the worst election result in…