Daily Archives: June 18, 2009 »
Bush Tries To Defend Guantanamo
RINF NEWS Speaking for over an hour at a business meeting in Pennsylvania, Former President George W. Bush attacked plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. “The way I decided to address the problem
Read More »Iraq inquiry a ‘whitewash’
RINF NEWS Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has labeled the Governments decision to hold a private inquiry into the Iraq as a ‘whitewash’. In a statement, Sir John Major said: “The Government’s decision to hold
Read More »A blackout and a whitewash: MP’s expenses
Another huge own goal by Britain’s parliamentarians. Everybody knew that they were taking a rather generous view on their expenses, and when a request under the Freedom of Information Act threatened to expose it
Read More »Internet privacy: Where everybody knows your name
Nightjack’s blog is, as its author put it rather beautifully yesterday, “slowly melting away as it drops off the edge of the Google cache”. Nightjack has gone, too, exposed by the Times as Detective
Read More »Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking
This is the first part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career(2006). The second part was posted June 17. While in
Read More »Torture Photos “Will Not See The Light Of Day”
RINF NEWS Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham, today revealed that a top ranking White House official has stated photographs showing US troops torturing and abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan will “not see the light of day.” Rahm
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