Torture Is Not a Methodist Family Value Posted on Friday, May 9, 2008 by wallwritings Guest Column by Andrew Weaver Editor’s Note [from James Wall]: Andrew Weaver is a good friend of mine and a close observer of the United Methodist Church. I asked him to write the first guest column for this blog. Andrew…
Cheney Aide Subpoenaed to Testify to Congress Reuters Washington – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff was subpoenaed on Wednesday to testify in a congressional probe of the administrations treatment and possible torture of enemy combatants. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, issued the subpoena to David Addington…
A Picture Worth A Thousand Words Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2008-05-08 15:33. Media Newspaper Criticized For Publishing Photo By Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist “Hearst Newspapers” — — WASHINGTON — Some readers resented The Washington Post for publishing an Associated Press photograph of a critically wounded Iraqi child being lifted from the rubble…
MiamiHerald.com By MOHAMED OSMAN An Al Jazeera cameraman released from the U.S.-run Guantánamo Bay detention center last week described it Monday as the worst prison mankind has ever seen. Sami al Hajj, a Sudanese citizen, was whisked from his hospital bed in a convoy escorted by police cars with flashing lights and wailing sirens to…
