Selected Quotes

"The war against Iraq will not eradicate the threat of terror but, perversely, it may bolster it."

- Spanish judge Balthazar Garzon, a tireless campaigner against Al-Qaida, on the eve of the United States-led invasion of Iraq.

"My days here are numbered because I dared to speak out against the Bush administration and say that the religious agenda of George W. Bush concerning stem cell research and gay marriage is wrong. And that what he is doing with the FCC is pushing this religious agenda. And also the fact that the guy takes more vacations than any President ever..."

- US media star Howard Stern, who - ironically - is actually a Republican.

"Wars are now being initiated by "we the people" not to secure our protection and well being, but to generate profits for the warmongering capitalists and their representatives and stakeholders in Washington, D.C."

- Ted Lang.

"Because they have no record worth defending and no ideas anyone will believe, the new McCarthyites have only one line of defense left: censoring their opponents. The question this time is, will anyone stand up for free speech?"

- Ted Rall, whose cartoons have been dropped by the New York Times as "too controversial" after 13 years and 3 presidents.

"The whole point of Guantanamo was to get to you psychologically. The beatings were not as nearly as bad as the psychological torture - bruises heal after a week - but the other stuff stays with you... In Camp X-Ray my cage was right next to a kennel housing an Alsatian dog. He had a wooden house with air conditioning and green grass to exercise on. I said to the guards, 'I want his rights' and they replied, 'That dog is member of the US army'."

- Guantanamo Bay inmate Jamal al-Harith, who this week returned to Britain after two years in detention without charge.