Monthly Archives: December 2005

Bloggers Publish UK torture memos

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 29 December 2005
Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray today published two documents at his website despite a ban imposed by British officials. Murray, whose book regarding these documents has been blocked for months by the UK Foreign Office, recently likened Uzbekistan to North Korea in this Guardian article. These documents are damning indeed and as the mainstream [...]
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Top 10 Myths about Iraq in 2005

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 27 December 2005
If you somehow happened upon this blog, but have yet to read Juan Cole’s “Top 10 Myths about Iraq piece in 2005,” piece published today, here is the link. Professor Cole’s Informed Comment blog is an essential component of my RSS Newsfeed (opml file). The myths: 1. The guerrilla war is being waged only in four provinces. 2. [...]
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Padilla Update

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 27 December 2005
I wrote last week of the Bush administration’s attempts to further manipulate and even quash the Jose Padilla case to ensure that he would not receive a fair trial by any historic definition of democratic justice. From a realistic point of view this seemed to be a case of BushCo toying with the judiciary to emphasize [...]
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