End-stage Capitalism

Twin Cities Media Alliance h/t Truthout

Why we invaded Iraq

See Ray McGovern's article on Israel, Blair, and Hillary.
Remember "Everything."?

Obama struggles with killing people overseas

Regarding Raymond Davis

Blackwater vs. drones.

Each method has advantages and disadvantages.

Obama: We've got a very simple principle here that every country in the world that is party to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations has upheld in the past and should uphold in the future and that is if our diplomats are in another country, then they are not subject to that country's local prosecution.

However, Article 31.1c does exclude from protection any professional actions undertaken outside of the official functions.

Guantanameros

Issue #3, Wed Mar 1st.

Guantanameros

Issue #2, Wed Feb 22nd.

Ray McGovern

Learning about how the Egyptians oppressed the people.

Coaling Station

Guantanamo is a coaling station.

State sponsored terrorism

Shooting from a helicopter is not war.
It's conquest.

Guantanameros

Issue #1, Wed Feb 15th

The King has always been Commander-in-Chief

Nothing new there.
And the good kings were war mongers.

Sensory depravation is torture

and we all saw it.
And so is mefloquine, aka "lariam",
the anti-malarial with a side effect like "Russian roulette"
except using a four-shooter rather than a six-shooter.
Audio from This American Life, Act 3, about events of October 12th and 13th
Losing one's mind, thanks to lariam.

One word

leave
eh haal

The clock cannot be turned back

No dictator is above the law, so they say.

Alexander, the Great Killer

Should we name our new destroyers the
USS Yoo, USS Addington, USS Rumsfeld, USS Bush,
USS Gonzalez

The Law must not follow politics

Politics must follow the Law.

If you had an outfit you could be a soldier too

and then you would be entitled to professional courtesy.

The Kids Are Alright

What do we want When do we want it.

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Levée en masse - - Dying for one's country

At the prayer breakfast

U.S.Attorney General Michael Mukasey (R) refuses to join FBI Director Robert Muller in a prayer for Bradley Manning,
imprisoned at the Marine Base in Quantico, Virginia.

He said dryly

Guantanamo has never been open.
See news article "UN seeks access to POWs at Guantanamo"
reported June 23, 2005 by npr here
The US is ignoring their requests.

Habeas Corpus v. Make me

"Despotic King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215" says the display at the National Archives. If despotic King John abandoned his right to send commoners to the tower, doesn't that make our president more despotic than King John? Yes, it does.
Our constitution does not allow the legislature to condemn free men (no bills of attainder). The 4th amendment prevents the executive from doing the same.
If they are not prisoners of war, then they are just prisoners.

Rupert Murdoch

buys Al Jazeera. You think I'm kidding?

Freedom's just another word

for nothing left to lose
Or protect.

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