Category: 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

  • Mobile Phones in Sydney Blocked During Bush Visit

    Mobile phone calls in sections of Sydney’s CBD will reportedly be blocked during US President George Bush’s APEC visit in September. News Limited papers report the sophisticated counter-terrorism measure will be used to prevent mobile phone detonated remote-control bombs. A helicopter fitted with signal-jamming equipment will shadow the President’s motorcade. It will block all mobile […]

  • Pope Cites Christian Conquerors of North America as Welcomed

    What? Were they greeted as liberators? In a speech to Latin American and Caribbean bishops at the end of a visit to Brazil, the Pope said the Church had not imposed itself on the indigenous peoples of the Americas. They had welcomed the arrival of European priests at the time of the conquest as they […]

  • New Study Documents Bill O'Reilly's Fearmongering

    (from ThinkProgress) A new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls “a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.” Fear was used in more than half (52.4 […]

  • Kent State Shootings: Tape ‘reveals order' to shoot Vietnam protesters

    Back from the past: The command, as Alan Canfora heard it on a 37-year-old audio recording recently discovered in a government archive, appeared to leave no room for doubt. “Right here. Get set. Point. Fire.” Then came 13 seconds of gunfire. … “There has been a 37-year cover-up at Kent State. The commanding officers have […]

  • Military Wife Chews Out William Kristol on C-SPAN

  • Happy Loyalty Day

    Updated: This holiday was first created in 1959 ‘was intended to counterbalance the celebration of the Labour Day on May Day — May 1, which was perceived as communist.’ Today is a nationally recognized holiday: Loyalty Day. Does that make anyone else’s skin crawl? OW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States […]

  • Condoleezza Rice Redefines ‘Imminent'

    I don’t know about you but when I hear the word imminent I think right now and immediately and within the next several weeks. Imminent threat was a huge part of the justification to invade Iraq. Condoleeza backs away: "But [Iraq was] not an imminent threat," presses Stephanopoulous. "George, the question of imminence isn’t whether […]

  • Call Your House Reps: Floor Vote on Cheney Impeachment Tomorrow (Wednesday)

    (Update below) Put up or shut up. Do you have a whole 2 minutes of your day to express your dis-satisfaction? Hell, you can do this on your way to get your afternoon latte. Go to http://house.gov, look up your Congress rep and tell them about the impeachment vote tomorrow. In an 18-page draft resolution, […]

  • White House proposes retroactive war crimes protection

    White House proposes retroactive war crimes protection The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policy makers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.

  • BBC Newsnight Does a John Bolton Takedown

    (via ThinkProgress and Digg) “What staggers me about this clip is Bolton’s point-blank view that the US had no responsibility to impose order after the invasion, and no responsibility for security within the country. Bolton actually says that the only error Bush really made was not giving the Iraqis ‘a copy of the Federalist papers […]