28 March 2008 | China | Tim Swanson
Last weekend was quietly marked by the 50th anniversary of the modern-day peace symbol. While it continues to remain a cultural icon, its history and imagery is relatively unknown.
As seen in the picture, the design incorporated symbols from the flag-signaling alphabet. The N + D were placed “within a circle symbolising Earth” where [...]
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26 March 2008 | Uncategorized | Eric Garris
By the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others.
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24 March 2008 | Uncategorized | David Henderson
You read it here first. Or, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, second. In today’s WSJ, Yoo actually speaks out against a war. Yoo, remember is the Berkeley law professor who believes that the U.S. president has way more power than the Constitution appears to give him and that he [...]
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23 March 2008 | Uncategorized | Eric Garris
Today, when 4 more US soldiers are killed by an IED.
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19 March 2008 | Uncategorized | Daniel Ellsberg
[These were my remarks to several hundred activists and supporters participating in a die-in in downtown San Francisco at noon today, March 19, 2008, on the fifth anniversary of the launching of shock and awe in Iraq. All those blocking traffic--surprisingly, for a couple of hours, before we were all arrested--were handcuffed, booked [...]
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19 March 2008 | Uncategorized | Laurence Vance
After describing the carnage of the World War I battle of the Somme, future president Herbert Hoover remarked that in another even more dreadful sense he saw inhuman policies of war:
That was the determination on both sides to bring subjection by starvation. The food blockade by the Allied Governments on the one side, and the [...]
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19 March 2008 | Uncategorized | Tim Swanson
George Bush just finished his press conference discussing his views of “progress and sacrifices” made over the past 5 years in Iraq.
Among other statements Bush attempted to counter, was an older statement from Osama bin Laden in December 2001. Bin Laden suggested that, “when people see a strong horse and a weak horse, [...]
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18 March 2008 | Barack Obama | Matt Barganier
Patriotically correct, that is, the most common and most oppressive form of political correctness in our post-9/11 world. From this morning’s speech:
But the remarks [by Rev. Jeremiah Wright] that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial. They weren’t simply a religious leader’s effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly [...]
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18 March 2008 | Uncategorized | James Bovard
In a memo sent to Congress five years ago today, Bush decreed that he was attacking Iraq “to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.”
The Bush administration linked Saddam to 9/11 [...]
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17 March 2008 | Uncategorized | Jim Lobe
Marking the impending fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Sunday’s influential ‘Outlook’ section of the New York Times asked “nine experts on military and foreign affairs to reflect on their attitudes in the spring of 2003 and to comment on the one aspect of the war that most surprised them or that they [...]
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14 March 2008 | Uncategorized | Eric Garris
Ron Paul opposes both the Republican and Democratic proposals to renew the telecom surveillance bill. Following is his speech before the US House of Representatives, Friday, March 14, 2008.
I rise in opposition to this latest attempt to undermine our personal liberties and violate the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. This bill will allow the [...]
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14 March 2008 | Uncategorized | Jim Lobe
In the most recent edition of its annual “Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism” released Thursday, the State Department — and hence the U.S. government — moves ever more closely to a long-standing neo-conservative tenet: that criticism of Israel or Israeli policies often, if not always, equals anti-Semitism. The report also suggests that comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians [...]
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