The litany of horrors at the Baltimore City Detention Center reads like something out of Dickens.

Interview with Sibel Edmonds April 30th on WGDR,
published in May 7th issue of the Baltimore Chronicle&Sentinel
" ... there are certain instances where the Bureau is being asked by the State Department not to pursue certain investigations or certain people or certain targets of an investigation--simply citing "diplomatic relations." And what happens is, instead of targeting those people who are directly related to these illegal terrorist activities, they just let them walk free. .... to this day there has been no real investigation ... "

Books published in English are displacing books published in other languages. Is it quality? Not really. Rather big international publishers and large book chains are narrowing the range of books available. Pierre LePape reports.

The US government never predicted that the best way to revive Iraqi, and Arab, nationalism, was to occupy Iraq, treat it contemptuosly and rapaciously. Juan Cole reports.

Australian journalist John Pilger compares reports of torture during the Vietnam War with those of the US/UK-Iraq War today.

Instability in Afghanistan under military occupation by the US and other countries increasingly parallels the situation in Iraq. Thalif Deen reports.

Ralph Nader's spokesman, Kevin B. Zeese, explains "how to build a common sense, populist political movement and remove President Bush from office."

Naomi Klein asks "Can we please stop calling it a quagmire? The United States isn't mired in a bog or a marsh in Iraq (quagmire's literal meaning); it is free-falling off a cliff. The only question now is: Who will follow the Bush clan off this precipice, and who will refuse to jump?"