Category: War

  • War Mongering Roundup

    Condi calls this ‘birth pangs’ of a new middle east. Lebanese Presdient accuses Israel of using white phosphorous (neo-napalm). Israel using clusterbombs on civilians (break int’l law). US testing laser missile defense in Iraq. 900,000 Lebanese refugees displaced from their homes. US supplies Israel with a whole new arsenal of weaponry to continue bombing. UN […]

  • Newt Gingrich: This is World War III

    Well thank God. Newt Gingrich is back again. He has aged well – he look better than his usual puffiness I remember back when I was younger. I can’t believe he is on Meet the Press talking about World War III. I can’t believe that language is being used.

  • Pentagon Decides International Law Applies to US

    2 Iraq posts in a row. I know. But this is important. The Pentagon has now decided to treat detainees within the requirements of the Geneva Conventions: “The Pentagon has decided that it will treat all detainees in compliance with the minimum standards spelled out in the Geneva conventions.”  SCOTUS found that Geneva Common Article […]

  • Nuremburg Prosecutor: Bush Possible War Criminal

    “Benjamin Ferenccz, a former chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials who successfully convicted 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating death squads that killed more than one million people in the famous Einsatzgruppen Case.” “The United Nations charter has a provision which was agreed to by the United States formulated by the United States […]

  • Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War by Greg Palast (Mindmap)

    Must read. You know Greg Palast as the ex-pat journalist that reports for the BBC and reported to the rest of the world how the 2000 election was FUBARed while no one in the US did a damned thing. He’s back. Armed Madhouse is a complete tour of the greedy, selfish assholes that run our […]

  • CBS Journalist Dotty Lynch Asks 'Where's the War Protests?”

    This really galls me. CBS’s Dotty Lynch asks where all the war protesters are. We’ve been here, you dumbass. (full analysis on DailyKos) Here’s my email to CBS: “But as the war in Iraq rages on I keep asking myself: Where are the young people this time around?” Well if you’d been paying attention you […]

  • Andymatic 016 – Gay podcast

    Andymatic 016 Gay Podcast – Includes your guide to the 2006 and 2008 elections, FISA, NSA and a lesson in Tagalog.

  • CIA Used UAE Planes in Global Kidnapping

    (Via Newsvine) To all those who thought that the UAE cannot be trusted to run American ports or help in the fight against terrorism, more evidence of the the close behind the scenes cocoperation between Dubai and Washington. After the DP World fiasco, America needs to take better care of its friends, especially those who […]

  • Murtha: Marines Deliberately Killed Iraqi Civilians

    My Lai Service Pack 2: Murtha, a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, said at a news conference Wednesday that sources within the military have told him that an internal investigation will show that “there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because […]

  • Thoughts on Illegal Immigration

    The immigration debate is crazy and it is a no-win situation for anybody. Unfortunately, it seems the issue of border-security remains stuffed down by the rampant racism underlying the arguments. I think this is really the wedge issue for the 2006 elections in case Iran doesn’t have the heft expected (Americans are very obedient when […]