• Home
  • 261 Days
  • About Suresh
  • Resources
  • Music

Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

You are currently browsing the archives for the Politics category.

24 Jun 2009

“The O’Reilly Procedure” from Roger Ebert’s Journal: Archives

billoreillybook_v.jpg

Bill O’Reilly has been 

brought low by the same process that afflicted Jerry Springer. Once respected journalists, they sold their souls for higher ratings, and follow their siren song. Springer is honest about it: “I’m going to Hell for what I do, and I know it,” he’s likes to say. O’Reilly insists he is dealing only with the truth. When his guests disagree with him, he shouts at them, calls them liars, talks over them, and behaves like a schoolyard bully.…read more at Roger Ebert’s Journal: Archives.

24 June, 2009 at 23:35 by Suresh

Posted in Articles by Others, Arts & Entertainment, Politics | No Comments »

25 Apr 2009

A Top Interrogator Who’s Against Torture - TIME

Ali soufan Why America's Best Inquisitor Does Not Believe in Torture Ali Soufan extracted some of the best information from al-Qaeda's toughest operatives. But he did not use waterboarding or other harsh methods.

By BOBBY GHOSH / WASHINGTON D.C.Friday, Apr. 24, 2009

He’s the special agent who came in from the cold — and waded straight into the debate over the use of harsh interrogation techniques. Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent and perhaps the most successful U.S. interrogator of al-Qaeda operatives, says the use of those techniques was unnecessary and often counterproductive. Detainees, he says, provided vital intelligence under non-violent questioning, before they were put through “walling” and waterboarding… continue reading on TIME.com.

25 April, 2009 at 22:05 by Suresh

Posted in Articles by Others, Politics, Things you should know | No Comments »

9 Apr 2009

Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent

 

By ANDREW O. SELSKY, Associated Press Writer – Thu Mar 19, 7:05 pm ET

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Many detainees locked up at Guantanamowere innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration officialsaid Thursday. “There are still innocent people there,” Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, told The Associated Press. “Some have been there six or seven years.”…read more

9 April, 2009 at 17:24 by Suresh

Posted in Articles by Others, Current Events, News, Politics, Things you should know | No Comments »

  • Two Hundred Sixty-One: Vol. 1

  • Buy Suresh's Debut CD Now!

    • Amazon.ca
    • CDBaby
    • HMV
    • IndiePool
    • iTunes

  • Suresh

    • Facebook
    • MySpace
    • Official Website

  • The Band

    • Charenée Wade
    • Fabian Almazan
    • Fraser Hollins
    • Gretchen Parlato
    • Jake Saslow
    • Jamie Reynolds
    • Jesse Lewis
    • Lee Pearson
    • Phillip Kirchman

  • Useful Sites

    • Aestheticize Media
    • The Canadian Music Centre

  • Lost in New York

  • Categories

  • Pages

    • 261 Days
    • About Suresh
    • Resources
    • Music

  • Poll

  • Suresh on Twitter

    • No public Twitter messages.

Suresh Singaratnam is powered by WordPress
Theme Design by Generic Designer

Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS)