Andymatic

Category: 4. Supremacy of the Military

  • White House Closes Park to Stifle Protest

    Shame: Police chased reporters away from the White House and closed Lafayette Park today in response to a gay rights protest in which several service members in full uniform handcuffed themselves to the White House gate to protest “Dont Ask, Dont Tell.”People who have covered the White House for years tell me thats an extremely […]

  • Mainstream News Bias Test

    When something truly awful breaks it is always interesting to watch how it is covered inside the US and compare it to the outside world. We’ve got one of those this week. Watchdog site Wikileaks has released a classified video: WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen […]

  • General in Afghanistan: We've Killed Lots of Innocent People, Found No Bombs

    Freedom’s on the march: “We’ve shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force.”The comments came during a virtual town hall with troops in Afghanistan after one asked McChrystal to comment on the “escalation of force” problem. The […]

  • Dutch Panel: Iraq Invasion Violated Int'l Law

    In the ‘RLY?’ but ‘maybe this means orange jumpsuits at The Hague’ department: In a damning series of findings on the decision of the Dutch government to support Tony Blair and George Bush in the strategy of regime change in Iraq, the inquiry found the action had “no basis in international law”. The 551-page report, […]

  • I Know How to Save $30 Billion

    I’ve never really understood why Israel can’t fund their own military: As the single largest expense of the 2010 foreign aid budget, President Obama approved $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel, the first payment in a decade-long commitment that will reach at least $30 billion. Last year, Israel’s military budget amounted to $13.3 billion, […]

  • You Have No Right Not to Be Tortured

    The Supreme Court refused to hear a case of four detainees bringing suit against Rumsfeld, et al: Obama’s Justice Department lawyers argued in this case that there is no constitutional right not to be tortured or otherwise abused in a U.S. prison abroad…. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act – a statute that applies by its […]

  • Blair on Iraq: WMD Weren't the Point

    More revelations from the UK: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he would have found a justification for invading Iraq even without the now-discredited evidence that Saddam Hussein was trying to produce weapons of mass destruction. “I would still have thought it right to remove him. I mean, obviously you would have had […]

  • 45-Minute WMD Claim May Have Come from Taxi Driver

    WTF: An Iraqi taxi driver may have been the source of the discredited claim that Saddam Hussein could unleash weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes, a Tory MP claimed today. Adam Holloway, a defence specialist, said MI6 obtained information indirectly from a taxi driver who had overheard two Iraqi military commanders talking about Saddam’s […]

  • Michael Moore to President Obama RE: Afghanistan

    From HuffPo If you go to West Point tomorrow night and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president…. It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government… Your corporate backers are going to abandon […]

  • Obama's ‘Black Jail’ in Afghanistan

    How’s that Nobel Peace Prize working out? An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The site, known to […]