saturday reads

A former SAS soldier was served with a high court order yesterday preventing him from making fresh disclosures about how hundreds of Iraqis and Afghans captured by British and American special forces were rendered to prisons where they faced torture.

Statement prepared and read by Ben Griffin, ex-SAS soldier, at a press conference on Monday 25 February 2008.

U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries.

Nobel prize-winning economist calculates the true cost of the Iraq war.

Steve Bell: The Six Trillion Dollar Chimp


A U.S. District Judge dissolves Wikileaks.org injunction.


Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer the House's contempt citations against two of President Bush's top aides to a federal grand jury.

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friday reads

U.S. Number One in Incarceration

The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world and for the first time in the nation's history, more than one in every 100 American adults is confined in a prison or jail, according to a report released on Thursday.

The report by the Pew Center on the States said the American penal system held more than 2.3 million adults at the start of the year.

The far more populous nation of China ranked second with 1.5 million behind bars, with Russia a distant third with 890,000 inmates.

D-Day: Our Prison Problem

A UK Channel 4 News report from last year on America's brutal prisons.



Andrew P. Napolitano: Granting immunity rewards lawlessness


Douchbags RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue


Preznit bu$h surpasses Nixon as the modern president with the highest negative rating.


Why Dennis Kucinich Still Matters

thursday reads

Wired talks to psychologist Philip Zimbardo: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib


Pepe Escobar: A long road from Kosovo to Kurdistan


Another witness against the officers who ran Argentina's "dirty war" on opponents of the country's military dictatorship has turned up dead.


Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, apologised yesterday for a string of crimes involving American troops based in Japan, amid warnings that failure to improve discipline risked damaging relations between Washington and one of its closest allies.


Clashes over Afghanistan poppy fields kill 26


More that 900,000 people are currently listed as suspected terrorists on the US government's "do not fly" list, and that number will grow to beyond 1 million by summer, says the American Civil Liberties Union.


Violet Blue: Dude, where's my G-spot?


Happy Birthday Paul Krugman

wednesday reads

An earthquake measuring 5.2 hits Lincolnshire.


Noam Chomsky: The Most Wanted List


Comcast pays people off the street to pack a hearing on Internet free speech.


An RIAA training video produced with the National District Attorneys Association basically tells viewers that music piracy leads to drugs, terrorism and murder. How much crack have these wankers smoked?



Judges in at least five states have stopped foreclosure proceedings because the banks that pool mortgages into securities and the companies that collect monthly payments haven't been able to prove they own the mortgages.


H. Candace Gorman: The Hippocratic Oath Dies in Gitmo


EU fines Microsoft 899m euros


Princess Sparkle Pony offers some new designs for Florida's "Confederate Heritage" plates.

Diebold apologizes to their shadowy puppet masters

From America's Finest News Source:

Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

tuesday reads

The U.S. Defense Department says the U.S. troop presence in Iraq will remain greater than it was before last year's surge in forces - even after the pullout of some 20,000 troops by mid-year.


Bank seizures of U.S. homes almost doubled in January as property owners failed to make higher payments on adjustable-rate mortgages.


Progressive Historians takes a look at the Hunger Marches during the Great Depression.


MTSS Episode #13 (Porn)


Looks like happy pills don't work.


Happy Four Year Blogaversary BlondeSense!

Bravo Marion!

Marion Cotillard reçoit le cesar de la meilleure actrice

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monday reads

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sunday reads

At least 40 people have been killed and scores more injured by a suicide bomber targeting Shia pilgrims in the Iraqi town of Iskandariya, south of Baghdad.


RIP Lawrence King (15) and Simmie Williams, Jr. (17).


Rolling Stone: The Myth of the Surge


Sara Robinson - When Change Is Not Enough: The Seven Steps To Revolution


"My friends" with John McCain... starring Vicki Iseman!


Just. Go. Away.


The Spongebob Squarepants Rectal Thermometer