Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard
Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with Chris Cook- CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia.
The mission of Pacific Free Press is simple: to dig out nuggets of truth from
the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried
public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue for
disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the
harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.
Names Named: Following Back the Torture Trail to Its Authors
“History Will Not Judge This Kindly”
by Scott Horton Gripping news: ABC News reports that the senior most advisors of President Bush, led by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, met in the White House repeatedly to discuss and approve specific torture tactics, including waterboarding and physical assault, as applied to particular prisoners.
Watch this report which resulted from a five month study by ABC News (and in connection with which I was interviewed):
Attorney General John Ashcroft, obviously disturbed as he and his
cabinet colleagues discussed specific torture practices, stated that
“History will not judge this kindly.” I don’t agree with John Ashcroft
on much, but on this point he proves a master of understatement. The
seniormost members of the Bush cabinet sat, plotted, advised and
directed the implementation of war crimes. And that’s exactly how
history will view it.
Kudos to Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard
L. Rosenberg and Ariane de Vogue for this powerful exposure of the
utter depravity of the Bush Administration.
[ed.'s note: Scott Horton announced yesterday these were to be the last posts of his Harpers.org's No Comment blog. Sad news for Pacific Free Press, where we've looked first to Horton for analysis of the havoc wrecked on America's legal system. His parting words are below. - lex]
Is There Life After Blogging?
DEPARTMENT No Comment
by Scott Horton
Sunday I read the New York Times article discussing the health issues surrounding blogging. It was a troubling piece to read. And I thought, how thankful I am no longer to be worrying about it.
After 1,322 posts at the No Comment page of the Harper’s website, I am hanging up my blogging hat. The simple fact of the matter is that 2,000 words a day is too time-consuming. It gets in the way of my other writing obligations, especially the long-form journalism, and the still longer-form and languishing book projects, and even those ridiculous law-professorly, footnoted articles. So today is the last day of regular No Comment posts.
Not to say that it’s entirely over. I’ll still do something from time to time, and in fact there are a number of interviews that will be coming down the pike (two next week, in fact), a few reviews, and the occasional speech or two. I will also be continuing to contribute pieces addressing legal affairs questions to the print version of the magazine.
I look forward to keeping in touch with my faithful friends and readers. You’re a wonderful support network, and even though it’s beyond my ability to respond to all the correspondence, I do read every line of it and often benefited from your suggestions.
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