We watched Control Room last night at the Ken. Thought it was a great look at the media, exposing biases on both sides of the world. I should really learn to sandboard. Nice: GOP avoiding investigation of prisoner abuse Al-Qaida may ‘reward’ American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office. A senior US …
Tag Archives: politics
Fresh vegetables
Looks like some things are finally leading back to people at the top; Rumsfeld ordered Iraqi terror suspect to be hidden off the books Nice: Batter-coated french fries are a fresh vegetable, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture So the question arises: What if a free press flourishes throughout the Middle East, as one …
Abu Ghraib
The Telegraph understands that four confidential Red Cross documents implicating senior Pentagon civilians in the Abu Ghraib scandal have been passed to an American television network, which is preparing to make them public shortly. We shall see…
Regan Porn
Few expected the gloss to be pierced by examinations of his past as an FBI informant, his support for the apartheid regime of South Africa, America’s covert alliance with Saddam Hussein, or the killing fields of Central America. Nonetheless, the sheer volume of media-stoked adoration has been a bit startling to those who are keepers …
How nice
A Pentagon report last year argued that President George W Bush was not bound by laws banning the use of torture.