On Thursday, US ambassador Susan Rice announced that Libyan government troops were being issued Viagra and told to rape as a terror weapon. She made the comment as part of a debate with another envoy to highlight that “the coalition is confronting an adversary doing reprehensible things.” Several diplomats said Rice provided no evidence for [...]
Its never really been clear to me why comic book storylines have such an ability to rile up political factions, but after the bizarre row over the French Muslim ally of Batman it should have come as no surprise when Action Comics #900 included a story about Superman, of all people, renouncing his American citizenship, [...]
From Veterans for Peace: Obama Declares Manning Guilty Before Trial Can Military Officers Judge Him Impartially and Contradict Their Commander-In-Chief? President Barack Obama said on April 21 that PFC Bradley Manning “broke the law.” This statement casts serious doubt on whether Manning can receive a fair trial from officers subordinate to Obama, their Commander-in-Chief. “Members [...]
Ambassador Gene Cretz’s estimate for a death toll in Libya today was 30,000 which, if I’m remembering correctly, is about as much as the US was willing to cop to for the entire Iraq War until the WikiLeaks documents showed that to be a deliberate (and dramatic) undercount. The real story wasn’t so much the [...]
Yesterday, consistent with the long U.S. tradition of mission creeps, the Obama Administration authorized the use of killer Predator drones in Libya. Forget the collateral damage, we can’t even solve a closed room crime like the Jonbenet Ramsey murder. And, after the most rigorous process the American "Justice" System can muster, people here are regularly [...]
Released today by Veterans for Peace: VFP Statement on Military Intervention in Libya April 21, 2011 “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” ~ Senator Barack Obama, 2007 On March 19, [...]
