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Saturday, September 27, 2008
"Liberation" as LBGT Charnel House - Anti-Gay Death Squads in Iraq
Ahhh, Freedom and Democracy in Iraq. Too bad the US-allied militias in charge now make Jerry Falwell look like a flaming liberal (no pun intended...). Gays and lesbians are being systematically hunted down and killed in a way that would make even a Nazi blush. It's not just gays either, any woman who dares sleep with ANYONE outside of marriage signs her death warrant. We've reduced the Iraqis to savagery, I hope we're proud...

Saturday, September 20, 2008
The Hidden Nuke Subsidy Scam Behind the "Drill, Drill, Drill" Bill
Harvey Wasserman describes the stealthy efforts by Nuclear Power companies to get loan guarantees for 45 new reactors so that the taxpayers would be on the hook for all failed or halted constructions (of which there would probably be many). Public outcry is necessary to stop this bad law. Oh yea, insist on the repeal of the Price-Anderson Act too. It's the ultimate in "privatize profit and socialize loss". Capitalism anyone?

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Gonzalez under fire for not investigating Texas Teen-Boy Sex Scandal
(6 comments) Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, already under fire for the U.S. Attorney firing scandal, now faces allegations that he willfully failed to investigate serious charges of sexual abuse involving members of the Texas Youth Commission during the recent election season. All the members of the commission resigned March 17th. Teen boys abused by their jailers, and Gonzalez let it happen. This is going to blow sky high...

Monday, February 26, 2007
America's Alliance with Bin Laden
(2 comments) Justin Raimondo: At long last the gloves are off and the Bush Administration's true character is exposed by the bright light of the brave expose, this time by Seymour Hersh. The neo-con cockroaches go scurrying but that won't hide the true facts. The Bush Administration and their Saudi Allies once again find Bin Laden's ilk useful. Ah... but did they every really stop anyway? Sure doesn't seem like it...

Friday, February 23, 2007
Rape of 14 year old Iraqi girl planned over game of cards
(2 comments) The sick cruelty of it all. The soldiers, driven to the very abyss of depravity by a psychotic and sadistic war, planned the rape of this child over a game of cards, as if they were discussing a picnic. When they carried it out, she screamed in terror as they raped her, desperately trying to keep her legs together. She knew her entire family had just been murdered in the next room, and that she was probably next. She was...

Friday, February 16, 2007
Breakdown at the Pentagon Lie Factory
(1 comments) Once comfortably attired in his transparent clothing, the chill winds of failure have started making the mind-control illusion powers of Bush's ethereal Armani become threadbare, rendering the once-silken garment as coarse as the itchiest wool. Not to mention that the itch of the woolen blindfolds the American people have been wearing has finally driven many to discard them. Boy, he looks pitifully naked...

Monday, February 12, 2007
As Surge Begins in Baghdad, Insurgents Move North-- launch deadly attacks on US Troops and Iraq security forces
(1 comments) Insurgents have launched deadly assaults on Iraqi and US forces in northern Iraq, killing at least 34 people, while security forces pressed on with a major crackdown in Baghdad. In the bloodiest attack, a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in an animal feed truck outside a police station near Tikrit, killing 17 people including 12 policemen and prisoners and wounding 20 more, police said Sunday.

Saturday, February 10, 2007
Najaf Massacre, The "Real Story "the NYT doesn't seem to get
(1 comments) Seems like the New York Times (and most of the rest of the media) has got it all wrong re: the "battle" in Najaf with the "Soldiers of Heaven". Reports filtering out would indicate that it was an Iraqi-army provoked massacre of fleeing pilgrims by overwhelming US air power. 263 Dead. 210 Injured. Plus another 25 Iraqi Army soldiers. The DisInfo corps are in full swing again, truth be damned...

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
US Military Opens High-Tech Rehab Center for War Amputees
(3 comments) Of the over 20,000 US Iraq War wounded, more than 500 have lost limbs and are now dealing with life as amputees. The Pentagon just opened a new rehab center for them at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. The picture shows a line of soldiers arriving for the dedication, marching in one by one, on crutches all of them. Their missing legs made it easier to see how long the line actually was.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
More war crimes. More lies. More mayhem. Official story of "Soldiers of Heaven" battle disputed.
(1 comments) Hear about the "big battle" between Iraqi Government forces and the "Soldiers of Heaven" who were out to perpetrate spectacular acts of terrorism but were thankfully thwarted by the quick reactions of local troops? Yea... well it turns out that the official story might not actually be true. More like a reaction turned debacle turned massacre. Patrick Cockburn reports on what the Iraqi media are saying, and it ain't pretty...

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Dick Cheney on Trial
(3 comments) The opening statements in the Scooter Libby trial struck official Washington like twin thunderbolts, opening up a huge fissure in the Bush administration at the same time that everything else – the security situation in Iraq, the Republican Party, the president's approval rating – is falling apart at the seams.

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Justin Raimondo on Libby
(2 comments) It's all about LYING, writes Justin Raimondo of AntiWar. Lying about the war, lying about the yellowcake, lying about WMDs. But like Al Capone and his tax evasion rap, the only thing that seems to count is lying to a grand jury. That, they will still bust you for. Carl Rove escaped while it looks like Scooter Libby will be the sacrificial lamb for the Administration's lies.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007
US Conducts Airstrikes in Somalia
(3 comments) A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively. You could call it a "strike" or you could call it an "assassination by mass murder". The AC-130 gunship is capable of firing thousands of rounds per second, and sources say a lot of bodies were seen on the ground after the strike...

Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Terrified Soldiers Terrifying People
(4 comments) FALLUJAH - The US brutally raped this once proud "City of Mosques" with a systematic, house-by-house search-and-totally-destroy mission unrivaled in its savagery since the obliteration of the ancient Vietnamese capital of Hue. Now the desolate ruins hold desperate Iraqi civilians, refugees really, and the freaked-out, scared-sh*tless, teenage sons and daughters of America. Cruel policies make war criminals out of farmboys...

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
An all-consuming 'war on terror'
(3 comments) Ah, the battle against "terror". Would that include an all-out war on slasher flicks? Some lessening of our own inspiration of "terror" on the populace of unlucky cities and villages that we visit with unspeakably powerful explosives and Waffen SS-style house-to-house searches for "suspects". Doesn't that inspire terror too? Or is this all just a big procurement scam? The signs are ominous...

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Saddam's execution and the future of Kurdish national demand
(3 comments) Direct from Kurdistan - you get the Kurdish perspective on the recent events surrounding the execution of Saddam Hussein. Quite interesting list of objections to US policy. They hate Saddam as least as much as the next guy, but they smell a rat in the way he was quickly put to death for the murder of... Shias. The Kurds feel kinda like the last time they trusted the US... Oops...

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Somalia: US Foreign Policy and Gangsterism
(3 comments) Why the US supports the warlords. Why indeed? It seems like 2007 is back to the future in 1984-land with our once-enemies now our friends and the one force for stability Somalia had now under brutal attack by our thuggish new "friends". But we've always been at war with Eastasia, don't you remember? We saw it at two minutes hate. Double-plus good, eh?

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Syria Wants Peace, Causing Near-Panic in Israel
(3 comments) Zvi Bar'el writes in Haaretz - In one of the news broadcasts that he presented last week on Channel 1 television, Haim Yavin defined the Syrian feelers as an "escalation in the peace attack," no less. No one could better describe the panic that Syrian President Bashar Assad is arousing in Israel. Attacks are something we understand. Therefore, it appears that peace has no meaning unless it comes in the form of an attack.

Friday, December 29, 2006
Saddam Hussein Executed - Hanged in the Green Zone
(5 comments) Saddam Hussein Executed. No long, drawn-out appeals process in the "new" Iraq. Hang-em' High was the order of the day. Seems the former Iraqi president won't ever get a chance to tell what he knew about the current American president, and his friends, family and associates. Seems the US Government couldn't shuffle him off this mortal coil fast enough. Well George, you won't have Saddam to kick around any more. Good luck...

Friday, December 29, 2006
US Troops in Iraq on High Alert Following Saddam Hanging
(4 comments) US Forces have been put on High Alert following the sudden execution of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Green Zone Friday. American commanders say an upsurge in violence is possible, even likely, following this event, as former Baath Party supporters and Iraqi nationalists react to the announcement of his death. Meanwhile, tension on he ground mounts as the news spreads...

Thursday, December 28, 2006
"Joe Blow" Tracks US War Casualties from Home
(3 comments) Michael White (aka Joe Blow, USA) set up www.icasualties.org in May 2003 when the war was supposed to be winding down and says it flourished in part because of his obsessive desire to make the names, dates and places listed on the site as accurate as possible. Now everyone who's interested on the real casualty facts on the ground, visits his site. Sad the Pentagon doesn't do the same, eh?

Thursday, December 28, 2006
The Accidental President
(3 comments) John Nichols writes that Gerald R. Ford was not all that bad a guy, But there was something very wrong about how he became president. And then he pardoned Nixon...

Thursday, December 28, 2006
Good Evening, Vietnam
(3 comments) Tom Engelhardt describes how "Hearts and Minds", "Quagmire", and the "Light at the End of the Tunnel" are now phrases suddenly and sadly back in fashion, now that "Iraq" has become the Arabic translation of "Viet Nam" in the opinion of many ordinary Americans. Viet Nam is back in the US Citizens' consciousness again, and the reasons are many and varied. Some things you never truly escape...

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
View from the Future
(3 comments) Rebecca Solnit writes the TomDispatch year end review of 2025 with a look back at the first twenty five years of the twenty first century. Boy how times have changed...

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
A Grim Christmas for Iraqi Children
(3 comments) Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily report on the Christmas shopping choices in Fallujah and the grim reality gnawing away at the minds of the weakest and most vulnerable (and politically innocent) Iraqis, the children. Boys prefer toy guns and tanks, girls prefer dolls that cry over ones that laugh. Gives the "War on Christmas" theme a whole new meaning, doesn't it? Merry Christmas from the U.S.A...

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Monday: 83 Iraqis, 6 GIs Killed; 46 Iraqis, 5 GIs Wounded
(3 comments) AntiWar.com reports on Monday's casualty figures from the Iraq War. Christmas Day carnage left a hundred and forty people dead or injured, including six more American soldiers now sadly returning home in a flag-draped casket. That makes for 86 U.S. servicemembers killed so far in December, and there's still almost a week to go...

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Questioning Capital Punishment
(3 comments) Bruce Shapiro writes in The Nation about the crisis in execution implementation because of widespread concerns about the cruelty of lethal injections. Over 1000 death-row inmates are now temporarily shielded from the fatal needle, at least until a kinder, gentler, poisonous cocktail is devised that passes muster. State-sponsored killing is getting a closer look and anti-death-penalty forces continue to gain ground...

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Robert Parry: Bush's 'Global War on Radicals'
(3 comments) The "War on Terror" is now expanded to the "War on Radical Extremists", as President George Bush applies ever elasticizing standards of "enemyism" to a rapidly expanding list of potential military targets. "Radical" (as in non-US-hegemony-supporting) movements of all stripes, particularly in the Oil-Producing "territories", will increasingly find themselves in the crosshairs of US military planners, and maybe more...

Monday, December 25, 2006
Iraqi Hopes Dim Through Worst Year of Occupation
(4 comments) Iraq is in free-fall, as the government largely consists of Shia militias, who openly kidnap and torture and murder suspected Sunnis in full uniform and with apparent impunity, even from US forces. The refugee crisis is out of control, the infrastructure is in tatters, the economy is ruined, and Iraqis on the ground are increasingly filled with dread for the future. It's Christmas in Iraq, and things are very very bad...

Sunday, December 24, 2006
A Bad Year for Empire - by Jim Lobe
(3 comments) For those who believed that the precise and overwhelming demonstration of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq would "shock and awe" the rest of the world – and particularly Washington's foes and aspiring rivals – into accepting its benevolent hegemony, 2006 was not a good year. Jim Lobe runs down the litany of woes for the erstwhile managers of empire. Almost makes you cry... So much for benevolent hegemony, eh?

Sunday, December 24, 2006
Condi's Diplomatic Triumph - by Gordon Prather
(5 comments) Condi got the deal she wanted with India regarding nuclear power sales, but there's just one problem, it's kinda illegal... India isn't a signatory of the NPT, and that means we're not supposed to sell them anything radioactive. Congress even inserted a caveat insisting that Bush PROVE that India was in compliance with all its international nuclear obligations before the deal could go through. Thank God for signing statements.

Saturday, December 23, 2006
Could Bush Start Another War?
(4 comments) Scott Horton writes in AntiWar.com that the Bush Administration might just be planning to launch a war against Iran, because: "All the news is that despite growing antiwar sentiment among the public and the establishment, Bush has decided to reject the major recommendations of the Baker panel and continue to settle for nothing less than total "victory" in Iraq..." So it's buildup in the Gulf for Christmas... Hmmm....