Category: 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
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Decapitated, Dismembered, Gay Teen Was 'Asking to Get Killed'
From Puerto Rico: “On November 14 the body of a gay 19 year old was found a few miles away from the town in which he was residing in called Caguas. He was a very well known person in the gay community of Puerto Rico, and very loved. He was found on the site of […]
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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 […]
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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) […]
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People to Set On Fire: Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri
What an asshole: It seems like such a simple act of compassion – allowing the partners of committed same-sex couples to make funeral arrangements for their significant others. But according to Governor Donald L. Carcieri of Rhode Island, bestowing this small but vital legal right to gays and lesbians will somehow “degrade” traditional marriage. From […]
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How Ft. Hood Shooter Brings Radical Clerics and Right-Wing Nuts Together
From Gawker: Wingnuts and neocons want Hasan to be a Muslim terrorist because it confirms their worldview that Muslim terrorists lurk in every shadow and helps them scare the shit out people. Muslim terrorists want Hasan to be a Muslim terrorist because it satisfies their desire to claim credit for the murders of Americans and […]
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Mark Morford on Maine, Washington, the Bible and Gay Marriage
From the always awesome Mark Morford: Meanwhile, there was a glimmer of good news up in the state of Washington, where they voted in favor of gay marriage, sort of, only they didn’t actually call it marriage because That Would Be Wrong, given how we all know “marriage” is a registered trademark of the Bible […]
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Italian Court Convicts 23 Americans in CIA Kidnapping Case
Watch carefully to see if this makes it to your evening news and how it is positioned: An Italian court on Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric here in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was tortured. In […]
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Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License in Louisiana
What a dumbass: Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. “I’m not a […]
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You'll Just Have to Wait
Glen Greenwald on why nothing ever happens: As for the “you-have-to-wait” justification, here’s the time-line of the Democratic Party mentality on all such matters: 2004-2006: “You have to wait until we win a Congressional majority in the 2006 midterms.” 2006-2008: “You have to wait until we win the White House in 2008.” January-May, 2009: “You […]
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Torture Tells Us What We Want to Hear
[T]he unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of Fouad al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti prisoner whose release was ordered last week by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly PDF. In the ruling, to put it bluntly, it was revealed that the U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated […]