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Peace, order and good government, eh?: This is where I stopped reading
Since the title of Lawrence Martin’s column of yesterday is Pushing the limits of state surveillance, I would imagine he was going to go on to discuss the continuing assaults on civil liberties and privacy that have been part of the so-called War on Terror™. But I got disgusted at the end of the second paragraph and stopped reading. Ten years on, we are still presented with the insanity that sees a ragtag collection of terrorist twirps, pissants or whatever you want to call them holding hostage the world’s greatest military power. Washington got sucked right into their trap, colossally overspending on defence and driving the treasury into dire debt; starting a war with a non-guilty party on the basis of bogus information at an appalling cost of almost 5,000 American lives; building a surveillance state that erodes if not ravages once-cherished American freedoms. In the war on terror, is there any doubt who the loser has been? I’d say the losers are the Iraqis, who just got written out of the story completely. As a result of that "war with a non-guilty party", hundreds of thousands of them are dead and millions more were wounded, injured or displaced. If…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Seriously, Did He Really Say That?
Why does the new US Defense Secretary talk just like Donald Rumsfeld?DefSec Leon Panneta has been making the rounds in Baghdad, begging the Maliki government to ask American troops to stay. The U.S. wants to maintain bases in Iraq that, in …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Twisting Baghdad’s Arm
America’s new defense secretary, Leon Panetta, has probably never won a poker game in his life.Washington, or at least the Pentagon, is wracked with anxiety over whether it will get an invitation from the Iraqi government to keep US forces in Iraq past…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: You’re not defending our freedoms
An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms: Information Clearing House: ICHStephen Harper, Conservatives and Liberals : you should take heed of this letter too. The situation in Afghanistan with Canadian troops is also poi…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: They’re Bandits. They’re Supposed to Make Out Like Bandits.
The Pentagon and the Iraqi government are giving up trying to locate $6.6 billion in greenbacks that went missing in the chaos after the American conquest of Iraq. Their conclusion – the cash was probably stolen.
It seems the money was shipped into …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Iraq – Let the Butchery Resume
In case you hadn’t noticed, Iraq is back to square one. The Maliki government is widely regarded as the most corrupt in recent memory – corrupt, brutal and murderous. Disaffected Sunni and the Shia led by Muqtada al Sadr are believed to be read…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will America Face the Humiliation of a Fighting Retreat?
U.S. commanders fear that American forces may have to leave Iraq the same way they arrived – fighting.46,000 American troops are scheduled to di di mau out of Iraq this summer and it’s feared they could become easy targets for insurgents as they make t…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Social Determinants of Health
(Note: This post contains a portion of the talk that I gave last month at the 16th International Conference of the Association of Psychology and Psychiatry for Adults and Children in Athens). Research has now clearly established that economic, and social variables – more than individual or family behavior – are the most salient factors […]
Continue readingLes nouveaux monstres
“Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.”
So he went about changing that.
World Headlines Review: Basra and Iraq: Oil and Expectations
A strange portrait of the Southern-Iraqi city of Basra is painted in a recent and brief Economist article. Better than Baghdad struggles to find real evidence of improvement of quality of life or opportunity in Basra, which is Iraq’s international oil and shipping hub and home to a large disenfranchised
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Wikileaks: Misanthropy and the Spectre of Scrutiny
Amid the bluster surrounding the public release of 278 of 251,287 secret and confidential USG diplomatic cables by Wikileaks as of Monday November 29th; more telling as to the behaviour and thinking of governments and vested interests is the current reaction in the world media and of public officials, than
Continue readingThe Global Express: "Operation Iraqi Freedom Has Ended"
As one of the most controversial wars to ever take place, the War in Iraq is drawing to its anticipated conclusion. Keeping up with his campaign promise, President Obama addressed the nation from the Oval office to announce the end of the war after mor…
Continue readingMore Notes From Underground: Predators
Like the aliens from the movie franchise, these sick fucks use a massive technological advantage to engage in some deranged sport shooting:
Continue readingwomanatmile0.wordpress.com: Bill O’Reilly Tells Tony Snow, “You can’t win”
I am still in shock and have been pinching myself to make sure I am awake after watching this O’Reilly video here at the Raw Story. When O’Reilly starts making sense on Iraq we can be sure it’s really over for Bush in Iraq. Meanwhile two leading Repub Senators have
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