Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on May 16th, 2008
Does this really surprise anyone? I’ve known school psychologists to do the same thing, so the school district doesn’t have to pay for special education.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on May 13th, 2008
That’s how many times those military “analysts” identified by the NYT were quoted, according to Media Matters.
And yet, no one else in your librul media seems to want to write about it. Interesting.
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on May 13th, 2008
Who turned out to be not quite so dangerous or guilty:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called “20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.
Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on May 8th, 2008
As rumored for years, yes, cheerful war criminal Donald Rumsfeld was pushing Bush for “regime change” in Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Lebanon:
Rumsfeld’s proposal called explicitly for postponing indefinitely U.S. airstrikes and the use of ground forces in support of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in order to try to catch bin Laden. Instead the […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on May 3rd, 2008
Via Covert History:
Ray McGovern, a career U.S. intelligence officer, believes President Bush and his administration have no intention of leaving Iraq and are preparing to attack Iran in the next few months.
“I believe George Bush and Dick Cheney plan to take care of Iran before they leave office. But what will happen then, if Iran […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 28th, 2008
Juan Cole:
The Israelis already have the Gaza Strip under military siege, carefully controlling what and who goes in and out of it. They have now cut off most fuel, and the United Nations has been forced to stop distributing food aid.
This Israeli government action is an unvarnished war crime. It is known as collective punishment. […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 28th, 2008
Via email from the U.S. Senate Democratic Policy Committee:
… On Monday, April 28 at 2:00 p.m., the Senate Democratic Policy Committee is holding a hearing on corruption in Iraq reconstruction at 2:00 p.m. that may be of interest to you. Three whistleblowers who have never-before appeared before Congress will be giving eye-witness accounts […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Crimes on Apr 23rd, 2008
Via email:
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Three whistleblowers will testify Monday, April 28 before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) about widespread and systemic waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq contracting, Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-ND) announced Tuesday.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 22nd, 2008
Oy:
The Army admitted about one-fourth more recruits last year with a record of legal problems ranging from felony convictions and serious misdemeanors to drug crimes and traffic offenses, as pressure to increase the size of U.S. ground forces led the military to grant more waivers for criminal conduct, according to new data released yesterday.
Posted in The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 21st, 2008
Marcy thinks so.
Posted in The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 21st, 2008
Criminals:
In a forthcoming book, British international law professor Phillippe Sands further documents how the most extreme interrogation techniques — including stress, hooding, noise, nudity, and “dogs” — came directly from the White House and Pentagon.
Sands reveals that Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s lawyer Jim Haynes traveled to Guantanamo in 2002, […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Crimes on Apr 21st, 2008
Richard Blair at All Spin Zone. Just go read it. This was the very thing that made my blood run cold as we watched live! the bombing of Baghdad.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 17th, 2008
I do think many of the Obama supporters who are furious at ABC are rather recent converts to the cause of media criticism - but only because this time, it was their guy taking the shots. I think I’ve been pretty consistent on pointing out that the media is the real enemy, and we can’t […]
Posted in Action Alert, Politics As Usual, War Crimes on Apr 17th, 2008
From Condimustgo.com:
You know what to do.
Odd, isn’t it? Charles Gibson, the anchor who narrated the torture story, didn’t think to bring it up during the debate. What a corporate weasel.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 16th, 2008
Rude Pundit on the stench of torture.
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes, War Stories on Apr 15th, 2008
Meanwhile, back in Iraq:
(CBS/AP) More than 50 people were killed in Iraq Tuesday after a pair of car bombs rattled two cities outside Baghdad, police said.
At least 38 people have been killed and dozens wounded when a car bomb exploded in Baqouba, Iraqi police said.
A second car bomb exploded near a restaurant in Ramadi, killing […]
Posted in War Crimes on Apr 12th, 2008
Regarding the White House sign-off on torture.
Posted in Media, War Crimes on Apr 12th, 2008
Why oh why can’t we have a better press corps?
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Impeach This, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 12th, 2008
Was that Bush approved torture. Well, we all knew that, didn’t we?
Anyone who promises to drag every member of this gang of war criminals before the Hague has my vote.
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 11th, 2008
How BushCo coerced the New York Times out of running their wiretap story before the election.
From dday:
That issue looks to be in a stalemate for now. What is far more revealing in this story is how utterly shameless this crew, which should have a restraining order barring them from coming within 100 yards of Washington, […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 11th, 2008
Winning hearts and minds.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Impeach This, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 10th, 2008
I’ve been writing for a long time about how the Bush administration has made a lot of seemingly inconsistent moves that really have one ultimate purpose - namely, CYA for their commission of war crimes.
Now you know.
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Crimes on Apr 9th, 2008
Go, Joe!
Posted in Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, War Crimes on Apr 5th, 2008
IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War) members seize National Archives Building in front of hundreds of surprised museum visitors. Response from visitors including teachers, students, vacationers was highly positive though there were a few horrified faces in the crowd. IVAW read the terms of their Citizens Arrest Warrant and stood their ground for 90 minutes.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes, War Stories on Apr 2nd, 2008
Yep:
Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.
The scope of the problem was brought into acute focus for me during a visit to the West Los Angeles VA Healthcare Center, where I met with female veterans and their doctors. […]
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