New reports of strangulation and other tortures by American soldiers...

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Lawyer resigns over terror laws

Another example of the British having more integrity than Americans

120 US doctors condemn White House nominee

More torture allegations

"Detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial breaks human rights laws, the UK's highest court has ruled"

Some good news for a change

"The ranking Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, plans to ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a county prosecutor in Ohio today to explore "inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering" in at least one and perhaps several Ohio counties..." (from the NYT)

The mainstream media finally starts to take the possibility of election fraud seriously

That's my Bush!

University of Oregon professor's analysis of 2004 Presidential election finds "compelling evidence of fraud"

More on the Power of Nightmares

"The issue isn't whether or not we are the same as the Nazis, the issue is that we aren't different enough." --Avi Schlaim

"A veteran sergeant who told his commanding officers that he witnessed his colleagues torturing Iraqi detainees was strapped to a gurney and flown out of Iraq - even though there was nothing wrong with him...

Over the past few weeks, the number of different account of torture and abuse by the United States has been staggering. Here is a quick run-down of some of the most recent:

- The Pentagon warned intelligence specialists as recently as June not to report the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.

- FBI agents witnessed US soldiers abusing detainees at Guantanamo Bay as early 2002 but the Pentagon did little to investigate the complaints.

- New photographs emerge showing U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees as early as May 2003.

- The U.S. government argues it has the right to use evidence gained by torture in deciding whether to detain people at Guantanamo Bay.

- U.S. generals in Iraq were warned more than a month before the Abu Ghraib scandal emerged that detainees were being beaten and abused in Iraq."

More on the new torture allegations here

Another fascist toady selected for Bush's team

How the NYT misreports

U.S. military admits manipulating media

House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on voting irregularities

Preparations for the Supreme Court fight

"I know you think the fundamentalist triumph is complete. America is going to be just like The Handmaid's Tale now. The Bush Administration will take orders from Christian ayatollahs who command all-glass mega-churches in the suburbs of Denver and Houston. The president will be proclaimed a Protestant Pope, God's infallible messenger on Earth. Roe v. Wade will be overturned. The minimum wage will be lowered to $1 an hour, where it was in the 1950s, when everything was perfect. The FCC will order all radio stations to play Toby Keith, and Congress will so brazenly destroy the wall between church and state that the next federal budget will include $10 million for the 700 Club Pledge Drive.

Stop worrying. I am here to bring you hope. I am here to tell you that the cultural Cold War now wracking America will be won by the liberals, by the forces who want to take this country forward into the 21st century, not backward into the 12th..."

Cheer Up, Liberals

Unembedded, Independent

The Republican Assault on Democracy

Errors in exit polls still a puzzle to many by John Allen Paulos, Professor of Mathematics at Temple University and winner of the 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science award for the promotion of public understanding of science

Oil for Food Becomes Isolationist Fodder