Author: lapin

The worldwide shitstorm unleashed by last year’s revelations of abuse of Iraqis at the hands of Americans at Abu Ghraib is due to be revisited, but this time the magnitude of outrage will undoubtedly be much higher....

I’m almost at a loss for words to describe how I feel about this story. I can’t give it the justice that Boo or Susan would, but it’s something you need to know about: The Guantanamo detainee who told an FBI...

Who are the St. Patrick’s Four? On March 17, 2003, two days before the invasion of Iraq was launched, four members of the Magnificat Catholic Worker community of Ithaca New York walked into the waiting room of the local...

via Atrios At a benefit dinner for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Al Franken had this to say to Judith Miller: Then he turned toward The New York Times table in the front of the room, where sat Judith Miller,...

A coalition of activist groups today has filed a lawsuit against the FBI.  The coalition, which includes the ACLU, Greenpeace, United for Peace and Justice, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the American-Arab...