Related article: https://uncensored.co.nz/archives/2005/08/23/wag-the-dog/ Wag the Dog By Michael T. Klare TomDispatch.com Tuesday 15 November 2005 Crisis scenarios for deflecting attention from the President’s woes. In the 1998 movie Wag the Dog, White House spinmeister Conrad Brean seeks to deflect public attention from a brewing scandal over an alleged sexual […]
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telegraph.co.uk By James Orr and Nina Goswami To early morning joggers, the sight of a man drawing buckets of water from a boat midstream in the River Thames may have seemed a little unusual. On board were a team of three scientists, experts in their field, who were for the […]
Movies and Dreams… By Riverbend 11/05/05 “Baghdad Burning” — — My parents, like many Iraqis of their generation and educational background, discouraged too much tv. When E. and I were younger, they were vigilant about the type of shows and movies we were allowed to watch. They didn’t like for […]
Torture means the woman who was raped with a broken bottle, and died after 10 days of agony By Craig Murray 10/27/05 “The Independent” — — The Government has been arguing before the House of Lords for the right to act on intelligence obtained by torture abroad. It wants to […]
informationclearinghouse.info More than twenty detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison have attempted suicide and UN investigators continue to press for visits at the prison camp despite refusals from the Bush administration. We speak with lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, who recently witnessed a client’s suicide attempt during a visit, about the ongoing […]