Month January 2006

Leak of the week: More CIA torture prisons

Swiss intelligence whistleblower releases documentary evidence of CIA torture prisons The Swiss government has acknowledged the authenticity of a fax leaked to the newspaper SonntagsBlick which appears to confirm the existence of secret CIA interrogation camps in Romania, Ukraine, Kosovo,…

Say it ain’t so, Al

  Yes, that’s "Antiwar Lite" Al Franken posing with an attack dog – at Abu Ghraib, no less. Could there be a more perfect example of the conflicted, muddled ‘response’ to the war by psuedo-liberals than this? From Body &…

How Abramoff funded the anti-gay agenda

From Doug Ireland One aspect of the corruption and bribery mega-scandal shaking Washington that is swirling around conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff (left), and which hasn’t gotten much mass media attention: how a lot of dough from Abramoff-controlled slush funds went…

Brain dead Democratic leaders

A British MP helped pass the al-Jazeera memo to a Democrat in the States, hoping to influence the 2004 election against Bush. The memo details how Dubya told Tony Blair he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera hq in Qatar, a nation…