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Tag Archives: Guantánamo Bay
Let’s hear it for Tin Pan Alley!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 5 January 2014 Who would have thunk it? Hard to have forecast that today the front-line … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged Guantánamo Bay, Ian Cobain, John Pilger, Julian Assange, PJ Harvey, Radio 4 "Today" Programme, Rowan Williams, Russell Brand, Shaker Aamer, tin pan alley
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Torture and the United States
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 November 2013 The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who was born on the island of Kos … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Health, Japan, Torture, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Camp Bagram, Dr Gerald Thomson of Columbia University, Guantánamo Bay, Hippocrates, Hippocratic Oath, Leonard Rubenstein, Mandy Rice-Davies, renditions, Taskforce on Preserving Medial Professionalism, Third Reich, torture
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Hunted whistleblower gets gong
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 9 July 2013 The prestigious Sam Adams Award was accorded yesterday 8 July 2013 to Edward … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Craig Murray, Edward Snowden, Guantánamo Bay, Julian Assange, Karimov, Sam Adams, whistleblower
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