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Category: 4. Supremacy of the Military

  • Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater USA

    Scahill has done extensive coverage of Blackwater USA, one of the biggest mercenary companies in outsourcing the war (and providing a lockdown on New Orleans during Katrina)

  • Bomb Squad Investigates Dark-Skinned Man Recycling Paper

    A poet decides to throw out some old manuscripts: Upon my departure, he called the local police department and told them a man of Middle Eastern descent driving a heavily decaled white Beetle with out of state plates and no campus parking sticker had just placed a box next to the trash can. … Because…

  • 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…

  • Boston Globe Reporter Charlie Savage Wins Pulitzer for Tracking Bush's Overreach

    Excerpts from the winning stories: President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. … The office of Vice President Dick Cheney routinely…

  • US now detaining 18,000 prisoners in Iraq

    Blessed are the peacemakers: The United States currently holds some 18,000 detainees in two US-run Iraqi detention facilities, Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper, the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing US military sources. In the past month, the US has increased security in Baghdad, leading to an additional 1,000 arrests. The detainees are considered “enemy combatants”,…

  • Orwell Reads the Finale of 1984

    Bouncing around YouTube on a Friday night:

  • Wolfowitz's Apology: Don't Hate Me Because I Helped Launch The Iraq War

    Think Progress Wolfowitz tried to explain away his behavior, claiming his mistakes were made because “he had to deal with it when he was new to this institution and trying to navigate in uncharted waters.” He added that criticism of him should not focus on his role in the Iraq war. “For people who disagree…

  • Bill Moyers Program on Iraq War Lies to Air April 25 on PBS

    Program that Tivo: David Swanson | Record of Iraq War Lies to Air April 25 on PBS: Bill Moyers has put together an amazing 90-minute video documenting the lies that the Bush administration told to sell the Iraq war to the American public, with a special focus on how the media led the charge. I’ve…

  • 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…