Andymatic

Category: 4. Supremacy of the Military

  • How 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Insults Straight Soldiers

    The upper brass always brags how the most awesome highly-trained military in the world can turn on a dime. You’d think that’d include attitude: The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy takes for granted that for all the bravery and constitution our military heroes possess, they don‘t have what it takes to be near a gay […]

  • Birth Defects in Fallujah Up 700%

    How’s that Nobel Peace Prize working out? During medical school he had to search Iraq for case studies of an infant with a birth defect. “It was almost impossible during the 80s,” he says. … Drone strikes has risen dramatically since Obama became President. During his first nine and a half months in office, (Obama) […]

  • US 68% of Global Weapons Trade

    Translation: the U.S. now owns a whopping 68 percent of the arms games worldwide. Sad fact is, capitalism trumps all rational arguments, all notions that we are out only to promote good in the world, and we will sell weapons to just about anyone anywhere short of Al Qaeda itself. Guerrillas? Dictators? Drug lords? If […]

  • Czech Town Confronts 1945 Massacre

    The officials sent a report back to their minister recommending that the bodies be exhumed and burnt so that “[the victims] should have no memorials to which they could point as a source of suffering by their people.” In a top-secret operation in August 1947, several mass graves were dug up, and 763 bodies were […]

  • Russia as Degenerated Liberal Democracy

    [W]hat happened in Russia between 1985 and 1999 was in fact a revolution in much the same sense as the Bolshevik and French Revolutions. The primary difference is that while the French Revolution (and the English Civil War, and to some extent the German revolution in 1848) served to eliminate or reduce the systemic obstacles […]

  • Right-Wing Dog Whistles

    #5. Sovereign: In the right wing, this term has two meanings. The most troubling refers to a notion called “sovereign citizen,” a term popularized by the violent Posse Comitatus militia formation in the 1970s to argue that white people have a superior form of citizenship to that of black people. More commonly, the term “sovereign” […]

  • More Taibbi on Thomas Friedman

    I wish I had the balls to first spend six long years madly cheering on an Iraq war that not only reintroduced Sharia law to the streets of Baghdad, but radicalized the entire Islamic world against American influence—and then write a book blaming the spread of fundamentalist Islam on the ignorant consumers of the middle […]

  • Chris Wallace Fellates Cheney

    Now look: there are softball interviews; and then there are interviews like this. It cannot be described as journalism in any fashion. Even as propaganda, which is its point, it doesn’t work – because it’s far too cloying and supportive of Cheney to be convincing to anyone outside the true-believers. When it comes to Cheney, […]

  • CIA Used Power Drill in Mock Execution

    [S]uspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during the course of CIA interrogation. According to the sources, who like others quoted in this article asked not to be named while discussing sensitive information, Nashiri’s interrogators brandished the gun in an effort to convince him that he […]

  • Fear as a Lever

    No observation will cause one to be ejected from acceptable mainstream company more immediately than pointing out that what the U.S. Government is doing is “terrorism” by definition. .. That’s because using Terrorist threats or civilian-destroying violence for political gain, or to keep a population in fear, is something that only other people do — […]