Month March 2006

Uzbek torture prison

Uzbek court jails opposition activist for 10 years With yet again no effective protest from the international community, another major leader of the Uzbek democratic opposition is packed off to torture camp. Nodira is a personal friend of mine and…

Senate advances Patriot Act renewal

The Democratic “opposition” is, as usual, off somewhere snoozing or more likely, in complete agreement with this noxious anti-freedom bill. Oh yes, they’ll occasionally pretend to object in order to keep their left flank somewhat mollified, but as to actual…

Collapse in Iraq

Former chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Iraq. So long as American politicians and policy makers feel that military options are more politically viable on the domestic political front than diplomacy, there will be no stopping our slippery slide…