Abramoff escapades

In one astonishing escapade, even by jaded Washington standards of palm greasing, Abramoff is accused of receiving big money to help a tribe reopen its casino shortly after taking money from rival tribes to close it. He lobbied members of…

Amnesty: Britain approves torture

Tony Blair has been accused of undermining decades of British campaigning for international human rights by using the war on terror to give a “green light” to torture. A day earlier, Mr Blair had told MPs: “We do not agree…

Iraq leader: abuse worse now

Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record, according to the country’s first Prime Minister after the fall of Saddam’s regime.

Dubya’s tinfoil hat

Why is the world’s most powerful man so worried about a TV station? The one indisputable fact, though, is that part of the memo – 10 lines to be precise – concerns a conversation between Bush and Blair regarding Al…

Al-Jazeera: show us the memo

The head of Al-Jazeera has asked British Prime Minister Tony Blair to release a memo that reportedly shows President Bush talking about bombing the network. And now a hint of the British government backing down British newspapers and broadcasters say…

Earth to US media

Google News currently has 243 stories on the al-Jazeera bombing story. Less than five are from US media sources. Why is this? I guess they’re too busy running stories about those zany shoppers at the malls yesterday to worry about…