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Because of his complicity with the Bush Gang’s irresponsible wartime stimulus to the US economy — largely consisting of enticing people to speculate on their homes by creating an artificially low interest rate coupled...

Newsweek has uncovered some amazing memos that demonstrate how even several years ago Colin Powell was warning that abandoning the Geneva Conventions was probably a mistake, and could lead to war crimes prosecutions against...

Slate carries this remarkable analysis of how in their fervour to provide a reason to invade Iraq, for several years the Bush Gang repeatedly overrode intelligence recommendations and cancelled Pentagon plans to attack the...

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...