US waterboarded Libyan Islamists (before we helped them)
The United States waterboarded Libyan Islamists opposed to Moamer Kadhafi and handed them over to his regime for further torture during the Bush administration, a rights group said Thursday. A new...
View ArticleNeo-con behind Petraeus character assassination?
There have been three major developments in this fast-moving story since my last column on this subject: 1) The stunning revelation by Broadwell in a speech given at the University of Denver that there...
View ArticleRachel Maddow, War Propagandist
The Moment had arrived! I’m talking about that Benghazi Moment, when the axis of elite opinion turns and the Forces of Righteousness come to the rescue — Syria’s internet was down! Rachel Maddow had...
View ArticleWhen U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemen’s government tries to conceal it
The Yemeni government initially said that those killed were al-Qaeda militants and that its Soviet-era jets had carried out the Sept. 2 attack. But tribal leaders and Yemeni officials would later say...
View ArticleEU’s billion-euro influence to Egypt
The EU allows Europeans politicians to behave more like their US counterparts. From today’s Open Europe news summary: The European Court of Auditors has concluded that the €1bn of EU aid to Egypt over...
View Article*VIDEO* Syrian rebel cuts out soldiers heart and eats it *NSFW*
Brought to you by Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, the neo-conservative movement, hill democrats, and the American taxpayer:...
View ArticleDOUBLESPEAK — Guns, and a regime that doesn’t represents its people.
DOUBLESPEAK is the standard, the new normal. Few people are surprised by it. Nevertheless, I thought this was funny and timely:
View ArticleWAR IS MORE FUN THAN ECONOMICS
the Russians are sending their fleet to Syria; the US has sent F-16s to Jordan; who knows what role Mossad is playing on behalf of the rebels; and now the Iranians are sending their best troops to...
View ArticleAmerica’s Neo-Conservatives are Trotskyites
Here is a brief summary of the general understanding of what neocons believe: 1 They agree with Trotsky on permanent revolution, violent as well as intellectual. 2 They are for redrawing the map of the...
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