Month April 2005

From the BBC Channel 4, reported by Deborah Davies – with video Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted with cattle prods, Burned by toxic chemicals, does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq? They are…

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has appealed to the IRA to help rebuild the Northern Ireland political process. In a direct call to members of the terror group, he asked them to “fully embrace and accept” democratic means. Hmm, why this…

Make that a gay communist victory In Italy’s regional elections, for which voting was held yesterday and today, Silvio Berlusconi’s governing coalition has apparently suffered a huge defeat. The elections brought more good news: in the region of Puglia, in…

Bush approval worst of second termers. President Bush’s approval rating “has plunged to the lowest level of any president since World War II at this point in his second term,” Gallup reports.

A rift among national power brokers threatens the country with disintegration that could have even more violent consequences than the collapse of the Soviet Union had, Kremlin chief of staff Dmitry Medvedev warned in a wide-ranging interview published Monday. “If…