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Think you know how bad Gitmo really was? A teenage detainee’s story, part III
Prisoner transfer at Guantanamo Bay Two Bush-Cheney torture program developments since the last post. One, Democratic senators have said they are open to the possibility of releasing Guantanamo’s...
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Think you know how bad Gitmo really was? A teenage detainee’s story, part IV
Detainee with escort at Guantanamo Bay President Bush has finally broken his silence on his administration’s torture policies. “The first thing you do,” he explained to members of the Economic Club of...
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Think you know how bad Gitmo really was? A teenage detainee’s story, part V
Hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay Last Monday, a Yemeni detainee named Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al-Hanashi committed suicide in his Guantanamo Bay cell. Earlier this month, another Yemeni detainee...
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Iranian elections and aftermath: The best correspondent may be on Twitter
I love Twitter; I hate Twitter. Twitter pins people to little screens, truncates thoughts and attention spans, encourages people to write stupid stuff, etc. (Also, in combination with “twitter,” the...
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Persiankiwi on Twitter: “The situation in Iran is now critical – The nation...
Below is the rest of Persiankiwi’s account of the anti-government protests in Iran, edited from his Twitter feed. The first part of his account is here. WHAT IS A PRESIDENT WITHOUT A COUNTRY? ordinary...
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Elections and 20-Man-Rule in Afghanistan
Opium poppies In 2006, Afghanistan harvested a larger illegal narcotics crop than any nation in modern history. Colombia, Mexico, and Burma together issue fewer drugs than a single Afghani province...
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The troubled case against Mike Leach
The Texas Tech Double-T This is the sensational allegation against Mike Leach, head football coach at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock: During practice, Leach ordered a team trainer to lock a player...
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Walt Whitman attempts to console Sanford, Ensign, Massa, et al.
The great Walt Whitman Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Eric Massa, David Vitter, high-level S&M-loving RNC staffers—Walt Whitman has thought of you! He has thought of you while taking ferries from...
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The King is brave: LeBron James chooses to build an actual old-fashioned NBA...
LeBron James as a Cavalier Big Caveat: When I wrote this earlier today I hadn’t watched, and didn’t plan to watch, what became the LeBacle, which I thought would be pretty formulaic: A bio segment,...
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