American businesses need to stop doing business with China. How much longer do we have to wait for the world to realize that these atrocities are unprecidented and beyond comprehension? Can’t our iPods be made by people of a country that does not torture its citizens and kill them to steal their organs for fat […]
Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group …Ms. Fu’s body showed no signs of decay. Her head had been shaved; both eyeballs were missing and the flesh around the sockets had ulcerated. There were two black holes on the nose. The upper body was bare, her underwear was wrapped around her head and her trousers were […]
Jan 6, 2007 On January 6, GoldStar Families for Peace Co-Founder Cindy Sheehan joins a 15-person delegation to Guantanamo. The delegation will include family members of detainees, former detainees, constitutional lawyers and US peace activists Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin,Co-Founders of CODEPINK and Colonel Ann Wright. Torture is immoral, ineffective and absolutely illegal under domestic […]
Tom Morris: Friday, September 29, 2006 Non-believers are less likely to support torture than believers. So much for the Moral Argument for the existence of God. Christianity in America – torture is fine, but homosexuality and porn are not. If you want to know why America is fucked up, take a gander at religious belief […]
Is it just me or has Time become just one huge ad for Apple?
The Daily Politics Despite her apparent opposition to torture, Hillary Clinton said in a Daily News editorial board meeting yesterday that the practice is acceptable in some circumstances. Clinton got a rousing reception from the human rights community, and seemed to take an uncharacteristically bright-line stance, in a recent statement on the Senate floor during […]
The Cincinnati Beacon Sometimes, bits of area graffiti have a “stickiness factor,â€? and their images or messages haunt me. I remember, for example, when I first saw the strange face that is the trademark of Obey Giant, which touts itself as an experiment in propaganda. Or one on a trash can near Wild Oats market, […]
Today in Iraq An Iraqi security guard broke down in tears while telling a court martial how he was allegedly beaten by UK soldiers. Juwad Fayez said he was punched and kicked repeatedly for failing to stand with knees bent and arms outstretched. Cpl Donald Payne has already admitted the war crime of inhumanely treating […]
nathaniel and the non-aggressive » is america dead? (updated below) riday was, perhaps, the saddest day in American history. And it went mostly quickly and quietly, except for the “liberal” lefty blogger base. These crazy opponents to Bush’s new bill, which passed in the Senate 65-34, actually believe that Bush should not be able to […]