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Posted on May 01 2008 : 12:30 PMI know there is more important news around (like Myley Shmyley's bare shoulder/scary Incest Father/scary Angry Black Man). So it is not surprising that this little tidbit from Hillary Clinton got so little comment: “I want the Iranians to know, if I am the president, we will attack Iran. And I want them to understand that, because it does mean that they have to look very carefully at their society, because at whatever stage of development they might be with their nuclear weapons program in the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.” Read More... ( 945 bytes in body) 
Posted on April 25 2008 : 01:20 PMWatch this video. Thanks to the blog owner Roberto Lovato for sharing something so beautiful. Read More...
Posted on April 11 2008 : 10:46 PMI know I seem to be harping on this topic, but it truly annoys me how the US media totally ignores this issue. Another article in the Guardian about alleged KLA war crimes. Read More... ( 1501 bytes in body)
Posted on April 03 2008 : 09:16 PMA while back I did a piece on Kosovo's "declaration of independence." I am particularly appalled by the double standard applied by Western governments, who give the Kosovo government leadership, members of the criminal KLA, a pass. Today's NY Times had an article about several KLA leaders who were acquitted by the UN War Crimes Tribunal. The main reason they were acquitted was because of witness intimidation, which essentially undermined the prosecution's case. But what was truly disturbing, and reinforces the points I made in the previous article, was this line: "The case against Mr. Haradinaj was fraught with difficulties from the start. Western diplomats tried to dissuade Carla Del Ponte, who was the chief prosecutor, from indicting Mr. Haradinaj, arguing that he was a respected political leader who played an important role in stabilizing Kosovo." Read More...
Posted on March 30 2008 : 09:04 PMThe big lie of Bush and Co is meant to cover up a horrifying truth: the endless suffering of the Iraqi people caused by the US invasion. Calling this invasion a criminal act doesn't properly describe the vast injustice of every day the US stays in Iraq. The Guardian, a UK newspaper, provides us with a bit of insight into what is really happening. A series of film snippets by an Iraqi photo journalist, Ghaith Abdul-Ahud illuminates a little bit of the heart-breaking truth that is the war in Iraq. Read More... ( 2018 bytes in body) 
Posted on March 28 2008 : 10:02 AMLike many people I suppose, I always assumed Goebbels first articulated the propaganda technique we now call "the big lie." According to this article, that isn't the case. However, his definition is quite apt: "...the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous." This definition exactly fits the big lie being promulgated by Bush & Co and the media regarding the "success" of the US "surge" of troops in Iraq. In the face of all the bombings, killings, fighting and unmitigated violence that gets reported on a daily basis, the lie just gets repeated over and over. What is ridiculous is that anyone with a modicum of intelligence can believe this absurd claim. Patrick Cockburn gives a more nuanced view of the situation in Iraq, in an interview over at Democracy Now: "This month, we’re probably going to have 1,500, 1,600 civilians killed. So, you know, in a sense, things have got better. We’ve gone from 3,000 to 1,600. But, you know, we’ve gone from 100 percent bloodbath to 50 percent bloodbath, but it’s still a bloodbath, so I think it’s really ludicrous for Vice President Cheney or Senator McCain to say, you know, we’re on the verge of victory, things are good. " Read More...
Posted on March 19 2008 : 12:12 AMSometimes I feel that most people relate to political conflicts like some sort of baseball competition. If you are on "our" team, you are a "good" team. If you are on the other side, you are a "bad" team. Perhaps I am genetically defective - I never was a fan of any particular sports team. Part of me can understand fandom (my kids call me an Apple fanboy). But to take a sports fan approach to politics just seems totally insane to me. Yet reading the news over the past few days, makes me feel like this sports metaphor has been carried to some surreal extreme. Read More... ( 6507 bytes in body)
Posted on March 18 2008 : 11:14 AMThe BBC has this article about the horrific conditions in Gaza. The article contains an astonishing quote from an Israeli spokesmen, justifying Israel's refusal to let a young cancer patient leave Gaza for treatment in Egypt: "And when we got on to the subject of seriously ill patients being allowed out of Gaza for treatment, he told me that, while some patients had been let out, it was his view that terminally ill ones posed a potential danger to Israel." "They had nothing to live for, he suggested, so they might blow themselves up and become suicide bombers." Read More...
Posted on March 09 2008 : 02:15 PMAlthough I am an optimist by nature, the depth of ugliness to which human beings can go, never surprises me. Humans often try to distinguish ourselves from animals. I would say that the only distinction between humans and animals, is that we are the only species that is intentionally cruel. Read More... ( 11579 bytes in body)
Posted on March 04 2008 : 10:39 AMIn an incredibly timely work of investigative journalism, David Rose over at Vanity Fair has dropped a bombshell: it was Condi who pushed Fatah into their disastrous confrontation with Hamas in Gaza. Chalk it up to another big "win" for U.S. meddling in other country's affairs. Read More... ( 3424 bytes in body) |
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"Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz -- Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace" -Benito Jurez
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