Andymatic

Category: War on Terror

  • Glenn Greenwald Parses The Weekly Standard's Craving for a Dictator

    Glenn Greenwald in Salon: Until the Bill Kristols and John Yoos and other authoritarians of that strain entered the political mainstream, I never heard of prominent Americans who describe the power that they want to vest in our political leaders as “near dictatorial.” Anyone with an even passing belief in American political values would consider […]

  • Amy Goodman: Ask the IRS for a War Tax Refund

    Via Alternet: The Internal Revenue Service is giving a rebate this year on a telephone war tax. This is one of those line items at the bottom of your phone bill. The tax was instituted in 1898 to help the United States pay for the Spanish-American War. Individuals and businesses have one chance to obtain […]

  • Military Analysts: Terrorists Unlikely to Follow Troops Home from Iraq

    U.S. military, intelligence and diplomatic experts in Bush’s own government say the violence in Iraq is primarily a struggle for power between Shiite and Sunni Muslim Iraqis seeking to dominate their society, not a crusade by radical Sunni jihadists bent on carrying the battle to the United States. While acknowledging that terrorists could commit a […]

  • Lieberman Implies Syria Connected to 9-11

    Lieberman added, “I say this because we’re in a war. We’re in a war against the Islamic terrorists who attacked us on 9-11-01.” CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer responded, “But they had nothing to do with 9-11.” Lieberman dodged the issue and changed topics.

  • After 4 Years of Torture/Custody Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Says He Planned It All

    Does anyone remember how the Khmer Rouge would kidnap entire villages and the torture people until they confessed to whatever the torturers wanted to hear including naming others – then they’d go get the named individuals and torture them until they confessed to something else… torture is a downward spiral. It doesn’t work. It is […]

  • Online Privacy Nightmare

    I have a Tivo. Tivo monitors my TV watching habits, what I rewind and what I skip. I pay for my Tivo with a credit card. The credit card company can collate all of my purchasing habits showing what I buy, what else I buy it with, where I buy it and when. My credit […]

  • Soldiers Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan Primarily from Rural America

    “the death rate “for rural soldiers (24 per million adults aged 18 to 59) is 60 percent higher than the death rate for those soldiers from cities and suburbs (15 deaths per million).” Of rural areas, Vermont has the highest rate of casualties, followed by Delaware, South Dakota, and Arizona. Only 8 of our states […]

  • FBI Reports ‘Baptizing' at Guantanamo

    interrogators wrapped a bearded prisoner’s head in duct tape “because he would not stop quoting the Koran,” … a civilian contractor laughed about the treatment and was eager to show it off. one interrogator bragged to an FBI agent that he had forced a prisoner to listen to “Satanic black metal music for hours,” then […]

  • The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: McKinney Introduces Articles of Impeachment in the House

    From David Swanson Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has introduced articles of impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice. In doing so, she alone has spoken for the 51 percent of Americans who Newsweek says want Bush impeached. Read McKinney’s remarks.  McKinney charges that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld manipulated intelligence and lied to justify war, […]

  • Leahy and Specter Introduce Bill to Restore Habeas

    Leahy and Specter Introduce Bill to Restore Habeas (from TalkLeft) Sen. Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy on Tuesday introduced S. 4081 to eliminate the habeas corpus- stripping provisions of the Military Commissions Act. The text of the bill is available in the Congressional Record and follows below. This Act may be cited as the “Habeas […]