Author: ghandi

Hardened cynics often accuse President George W. Bush of ruthlessly exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 to advance his pre-set agenda of killing a whole heap of foreigners. This is, of course, a calumnious slander against the Dear...

You know the big story about how Bush was going to (finally) close Abu Ghraib prison? Well, it turns out that it was all a lie. Who says? The Pentagon — the same people who were peddling the false story just last week,...

Here’s an important story that for some strange reason is not on the network news or splashed across the front pages of America’s leading newspapers: SAS soldier quits Army in disgust at ‘illegal’...

It was, by all reports, the most heinous terrorist act in history. A ruthless gang of religious extremists, driven by an insatiable hatred for Western civilization, killed multitudes of innocent people in a surprise attack that...

Crossposted at Empire Burlesque When I read the passage below from Moazzam Begg’s account of his years in Bush’s Terror War prisons, I had a strange feeling of dislocation: it was as if 30 years had suddenly fallen...