all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Originally, Geneva Conventions protections were stripped only from Qaeda and Taliban prisoners. But later Rumsfeld himself, impressed by the success of techniques used against Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly set in motion a...
I’ve just realised that the Rumsfeld lackey that Sy Hersh fingers as directly responsible for creating and enlarging the Pentagon torture regime, Stephen Cambone (Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence), was mentioned in passing...
This is the Kubark Manual, an early official US DOD guide to torture for government agents. Reading about the perverse muscle seizure drugs which are being injected into Afghani prisoners to freeze them rigid...
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand...
It didn’t work for the SS rank-and-file, why should it work for her? Lynndie England, seen worldwide in photographs that show her smiling and pointing at naked Iraqi prisoners, said she was ordered to...
The NY Times has another article on Global Dimming – the current climate horror story de jure. In a classic example of how change in science basically means outlasting your critics, the main actors...
From the that-didn’t-take-too-long-department: Google, the Web search engine which attracted a loyal following in part because its simple Web site is uncluttered by obtrusive graphical banner ads, has now decided to sell the sort...
It seems as if all Muqtada al-Sadr’s hard work in Iraq may be paying off – the Penetagon seems to be beginning to regard him as a possible useful proxy: To achieve its vital...
So today I read that notorious religious bigot Senator James Inhofe said that it was probably okay to torture Iraqi prisoners because they probably deserved it. Apparently, all the fuss is being manipulated by...
The journal Science published a retraction from a group of Johns Hopkins scientists who’d discovered that a bottle they thought contained Ecstasy was in fact filled with methamphetamine, commonly known as speed. The mix-up...