A woman who is a registered lobbyist for a group campaigning against domestic violence has been charged with killing her husband.

Alexander Haig has died.

About the torture memos.

Tracking polling about willingness to vote for an atheist, homosexual, female, Mormon, Catholic, black, Jewish, Baptist for President ( Read more... )

Vice President Cheney has publicly stated that he was a supporter of waterboarding:
CHENEY: I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques that...
KARL: And you opposed the administration's actions of doing away with waterboarding?
CHENEY: Yes.
I will leave it to those more versed in ( Read more... )

Waterboarding and sleep deprivation are torture
I just wanted to make that clear. They are clearly torture as defined by the Torture Convention which lots of countries (including Oz and the US) have signed and ratified. President Ronald Reagan signed the convention on behalf of the US. The Convention defines torture as:
...any act by which severe ( Read more... )

About real Jewish WWII commandos: Of course they haven’t seen the film, which opens later this month, but what they hate is the premise that Jewish soldiers would hunt for scalps or bludgeon prisoners with a baseball bat.

Casualty figures for the Japanese Army in various Pacific War campaigns with Stalingrad for comparison. Looking at problems ( Read more... )

Nature, red in tooth and claw narwhal pieces: Don't let cute overrun the world, fight back with your own Avenging Narwhal!

How to do carpetbagger steak with pictures.

Review of a book about the very different sexual outlooks of West and East and the interaction between the two.

A model of critical thinking.

About Zhao Zhiyang’s posthumous ( Read more... )

A former Chief of the UK Defence Staff on why torture is wrong.

About a proposed ban on space weapons.

Iran is keen on a dialogue with the US: under some pretty strict preconditions.

On not over-stating the jihadi threat. The ebb and flow against al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula. A clinician who professionally assesses people for their ( Read more... )

Treating the suggestion that getting rid of the term “War on Terror” is more important than firmly opposing the use of torture with the contempt it deserves.

The new Pentagon directive on irregular warfare (pdf).

Lebanese politics and very different refusals to meet US figures: Jimmy Carter, an icon of the left, is not acceptable enough to ( Read more... )