July 26, 2006 | Medea Benjamin is led away by Capitol Hill police after she interrupted the address of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at a joint meeting of Congress in Washington. Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace and Global Exchange, stood up from the gallery and shouted, "Iraqis want the troops to leave, bring them home now! Listen to the Iraqis!" Benjamin repeated the statement several times before she was forcefully lifted from her seat and handcuffed. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

cartoons from Beirut

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Salaam, Peace, Shalom

Israel attacks

From Angry Arab News Service (July 16th):
«Hanady Salman, a friend and editor at As-Safir in Beirut, sent a batch of pictures (some above) and this message:
"Dear friends and colleagues
The list is longer today .the pictures are from everywhere . The scope of shelling was terrible today. They're hitting everywhere, killing everywhere. Apologies if it turns out to be inconveniant and many thanks to all of you who responded and offered to help.
Hanady Salman"

From an email I recieved:
«pictures of the bodies of babies killed by the israelis in South lebanon. They are all burnt. They are associated press pictures. These are people who were asked to leave their village , Ter Hafra. So those who were able to flee went to the closer UN base where they were asked to leave. I think that after the Qana massacres in 1996 when civilians were bombed after they took chelter in UN headquarters , the UN does not want to be responssible for the lives of civilians. The Israelis asked the people of Al Bustan village in the south to evacuate their homes. I am afraid massacares will keep happening as long as Israeli actions are uncheked. »

Bush baby

During his July visit to Germany, Bush is handed a baby, who began a noisy protest. Unable to placate the wailing child, Bush was forced to hant it back to its mother.

Odd map, but quite telling

desfile durante 8ºCongresso da JCP

Lisboa, tuas paredes são uma folha de papel para os poetas

Folhas de papel servem também para deiar recados e declarações:

1º Maio pelo mundo fora

De cima para baixo, esquerda para a direita: Istambul,Turquia; Basra, Iraque; Ramallah, Palestina; Irão; Los Angeles, EUA; Havana, Cuba; Moscovo, Russia)

25 de Abril para todos, para o futuro, sempre

Abril e Maio é agora

Universidade do Porto

desenhos pre-25 de Abril 1974

More Photos from Abu Ghraib

Recently, more photos of torture by the US military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were revealed on the Australian TV news program Dateline. The photo on the left is a still from a video showing several hooded prisoners forced to masturbate. It typifies two aspects of the CIA torture protocol post-9/11: sensory deprivation and attacks on cultural sensitivity, namely sexual exposure. The latter technique is an addendum to the signature elements of CIA torture, as described by Alfred McCoy in his January/2006 book "A Question of Torture: CIA interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror": a combination of sensory deprivation and auto-infliction of pain. These recent photos, while referring to the same period as those previously released, further illustrate how interrogators and prison guards were trying trying out different forms of this double assault.


The following series different forms in which one prisoner, referred to by guards as "shitboy" because of his habit of covering himself with feces - an obivous indication of severe mental stress - was a popular object for experiments in modes of torture. The last photo in this series is a another still from a video where this prisoner is chained and banging his head on the wall repeatedly.

This set of photos are more photos of Munadel al-Jumaili, already seen in the previous batch of photos together with Charles Graner and Lynndie England. We also see the pool of blood left in the room where he was tortured.

There are also more photos of murdered prisoners