Medical examinations released today on former terrorist suspects detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay were tortured.The report was released by a human rights group.See other NowPublic coverage here." The...
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SALIM AHMED HAMDAN was Osama bin Laden's personal driver and bodyguard was formally charged by The Department of Defense with conspiracy, for trial by military commission under the President’s Order of November...
"A woman who was forced to remove her nipple rings with pliers before boarding a flight in Texas, has demanded an apology and said she wants the US government to investigate the incident.Mandi Hamlin, a 37-year-old graphic artist from Dallas, said: 'It was...
This is the most outrageous example of blaming the messenger that I've seen in a long, long time:"
BERLIN - Lynndie England, the public face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, told a German...
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Germany launches comic book on Holocaust.
I quote..”New book part of effort to combat anti-semitism in Germany, which has a rapidly growing Jewish community”..”Created by the Dutch cartoonist Eric...
"The Beijing Olympics this summer were supposed to be China’s coming-out party, celebrating the end of nearly two centuries of weakness, poverty and humiliation.Instead, China’s leaders are tarnishing their own...
"Tied to a lamppost, he stands with his head and upper body covered in tar and feathers. A makeshift placard hung around his neck with a piece of string announces the reason for his treatment.
It is a very public...
I knew writing this article I would be labaled a racisist by those that hide in dark corners when the light is turned on. Regretably the first forum I posted this on attacked me and compared me to Timothy McViegh and...
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As the world eagerly awaits the final Harry Potter book, eBay India is charging Harry's creator with harassment. This is the latest battle in an ongoing war over the presence of pirated e-book versions of the Potter...
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"Council officials have warned people dropping litter in one Nottinghamshire town that they face public humiliation during a summer clean-up.
An actor dressed as Gordon Bin-it will patrol Mansfield with a megaphone to embarrass litterbugs as part of the scheme which starts on...
"In the lead up to and wake of Bill Moyers' much-anticipated mega-dunk on the Washington press corps this week, we are seeing the ugliest side of Beltway culture - the meltdown, damage-control freak out. Only what's...
"An International Failure
The E.U. and U.N. only make things more difficult.
By Charles Krauthammer
Iran has pulled off a tidy little success with its seizure and subsequent release of those 15 British sailors and marines: a pointed humiliation of Britain, with a bonus...
Saddam Hussein's death by hanging conforms to the
adage "an eye for an eye" but his execution on a major Islamic holiday
also seems vindictive to many Muslims. Capital
punishment is practiced throughout the Arab and...
Daily News
"SANTA MONICA, CA – Two fraternity boys filed a suit contesting the
documentary film, "Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," where plaintiff as the lawsuit said,
were "made the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental...
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At one time or
another we've all done something to embarrass ourselves at work. We
call someone by the wrong name, trip on our way up to the podium or
discover that we have spinach in our teeth after a conversation with
the CEO. But how many of us have done something that...