Rumsfeld has fled from human rights charges in France.

The criminal complaint states that because of the failure of authorities in the United States and Iraq to launch any independent investigation into the responsibility of Rumsfeld and other high-level U.S. officials for torture despite a documented paper trail and government memos implicating ( Read more... )

This article is from a couple weeks ago, but I found it illuminating. The soldier who blew the whistle on Abu Ghraib has gotten grief for what he did - from people here in the U.S. His colleagues in Iraq mostly supported him, but the backlash in his hometown has forced him and his family to move and change jobs ( Read more... )

In case you hadn't heard, yesterday France and the U.S. reached an agreement on a draft resolution calling for a ceasefire (without the word "immediate").

Reaction to the resolution. I have a dim view of this page, actually. Their "Mid-East press" seems to consist of four Israeli papers, The Jordan Times, and one London paper with an Arabic- ( Read more... )

Speigel Online (in English) brings a German and Europe-wide perspective to the riots in France: What's Wrong With Europe?. (My guess, that you can't get a pizza delivered, but that's based solely on the tribulations of a fictional American in England in Douglas Adams.) Clearly government response, at least initially, was part of the problem. One ( Read more... )