Photos like this have made Mohammed Omer unpoplar with Israel’s security services
From the Inter Press Service:
Mohammed Omer, joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to […]
Citing executive privilege, Bush is blocking the House Oversight Committee from examining EPA documents on global warming.
This can only mean one thing: the EPA documents provide evidence that global warming is caused by human activity, and the Worst President Ever is hiding the truth as a favor to his buddies in the oil industry.
Robert Mugabe lost Zimbabwe’s recent presidential election, but used massive election fraud to force a run-off election on June 27. This time, he’s taking no chances, and his thugs are brutalizing supporters of Morgan Tsvangirai in an effort to intimidate voters. The latest atrocity: hundreds of women are being raped for opposing Mugabe.
There is now […]
Bill Clinton, eat your heart out. John McCain’s got some skeletons in his closet, and they aren’t pretty:
Mrs. McCain — the first one, Carol -— is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.
[H]ad events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than […]
…I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.
The Burmese Junta is still turning away American cyclone relief aid, and they’re saying that they fear that the Americans are preparing an invasion to steal Burma’s oil. I think it’s more likely that they fear that contact with Westerners will fuel unrest, or that they’re covering […]
A Republican show of support for the troops
Remember when the wingnuts used to accuse war opponents of not supporting the troops? The last example I saw of this was in 2007, and it came from William Kristol, who now writes for the New York Times:
The “support-the-troops-but-oppose-what-they’re-doing” position has become increasingly untenable. How can you say […]
Newly sewn Klan robes, ready for shipping
58-year-old Miss Ruth spends all of her days doing just three things: smoking, caring for farm animals an for her 40-year-old quadriplegic daughter, making the uniforms for America’s oldest and most notorious terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan. Anthony Karen interviewed her extensively and photographed the at home, where […]
Remember Corey Maye?
At 11p.m on December 26, 2001 police in Prentiss, Mississippi raided the residence of Cory Maye, a 21-year-old father who was at home with his 18-month-old daughter Ta’Corriana.
The cops were looking for drugs and smashed through the back door. In the ensuing chaos, Maye hunkered down with his daughter in a bedroom and […]
…but he’s got no problem with his wife giving them money.
Seriously, I can’t believe anyone is contemplating voting for McCain while he refuses to make most of his assets — those held in his wife’s name — open to scrutiny by the public.
You know those Ethiopian troops that invaded and occupied Somalia, and whom we provide with weapons, intelligence, and air cover? Now they’re committing all manner of atrocities, including throat-cutting, eye-gouging, and rape.