Abu Ghraib Detainees Sue U.S. Contractors for Torture
The call for justice should never cease. While we hold slim hope of justice being done and BushCo and all the participants in the torture policy being held accountable, the call for justice should...
View ArticleAnother Middle Way
He is moving to the center, so they say. The pragmatists, so-called, recognize a strategic need for this move to the middle and, trusting Obama, applaud it; the purists so-called, wonder what we're...
View ArticleThe Abortion "Flap": Everyone is Missing the Point
Obama swung to the right! No, he didn't! Blah blah blah blah blah. Obama has the same opinion has Feingold! Great! No. Bad. They're both wrong. Here's the real point: The passage of the so-called...
View ArticlePresident of Sudan to Be Charged With Genocide
This is the first time that the International Criminal Court will bring charges against a sitting leader for genocide and crimes against humanity. UNITED NATIONS, July 10 -- The chief prosecutor of the...
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We're Number 5!
Number 5 out of the Top 10 Executing Countries in 2007, per Amnesty International (PDF):
View ArticleMilitary Admits Troops Killed Civilians in Iraq and Covered-Up
BAGHDAD — The American military admitted Sunday night that a platoon of soldiers raked a car of innocent Iraqi civilians with hundreds of rounds of gunfire and that the military then issued a news...
View ArticleDE-AL: Send this possum to Washington D.C.
I'm honored to participate in this blogathon for my friend, Jerry Northington, dK's own possum. But I must say, in the midsts of so many illustrious bloggers, and coming about a dozen diaries in to the...
View ArticleOctober 1st: FBI Strengthens Police State
On October 1st, the FBI grants broad new investigative powers to its 12,000 agents. Changes in authority that threaten our civil liberties and the lifeblood of democracy. The rules changes, supposedly...
View ArticleAs if blame and future policy were unrelated ...
I'm glad to see the Democrats pushing back against the $700 billion blank check demanded by BushCo to deal with the crisis that they themselves create. Their policies fostered the culture of greed and...
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Poll on the Bailout: Obama is the only one with a positive rating
I've been somewhat cranky and very busy lately. Not a great combo, I admit. In any event, I may have missed a post about this; if so, sorry about that. I just wanted to share it, because it made me...
View ArticleObama to Investigate Bush Torture Policy
According to Salon, the Obama team is pushing ahead with plans for an investigation: Nov. 13, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- With growing talk in Washington that President Bush may be considering an...
View ArticleWhat I heard tonight would have made me choke on my drink if I had one
I don't go to parties very much anymore. But tonight, a group I'm involved with was having a book party to celebrate the first two books in our new series. We're a bunch of scary leftists, probably...
View ArticleThe Tension of Justice and Peace; Or, What We Owe the World
Many on the left in these United States are well acquainted with the protest cry: NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! This chant presumes that when there is justice, there will be peace. Not only will the protesters...
View ArticlePolitico: Gates agrees to stay on under Obama
ABCNews earlier reported this is a "done deal," as diaried by bugscuffle. Now Politico seems to confirm this: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Obama,...
View ArticleOne Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex
According to a scathing 7 page article in the NY Times, that man is General Barry McCaffrey, "a retired four-star Army general and military analyst for NBC News" ... and consultant to defense...
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Filling Empty Bowls: 36 Hours for Feeding America (5) Feeding the needy, not...
New York, New York, a helluva a town. My hometown. Great cosmopolis. A jewel. And the site of a scandalous truth. In one of the cities with the greatest concentration of wealth in America and the...
View ArticlePardons. Yes or no?
Do you think that Bush will issue a blanket pardon to protect all the architects of the torture policy, illegal spying, etc? I tend to think so, despite the fact that it may tarnish his "legacy." From...
View ArticleState Department Panel: Drop Blackwater in Iraq
This is just coming in over the wires. According to a US official, a State Department panel has recommended dropping Blackwater in Iraq. This news comes on the heels of the indictment of five guards...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch to IDF: Stop Using White Phosphorus Now
Human Rights Watch Press Release, January 10, 2009: (Jerusalem) – Israel should stop using white phosphorus in military operations in densely populated areas of Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today. On...
View ArticleJudges grant Obama request to suspend Gitmo trials (update)
So reports the AP: GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – A judge on Wednesday quickly granted President Barack Obama's request to suspend the war crimes trial of a young Canadian in what may be the...
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