For the first time ever, a call to dismantle the Apartheid Wall has been published in Israel’s main-stream media, by otherwise very main-stream senior columnist Yoel Esteron of Ha’aretz.
Have They Ever Even Read Voltaire?
Roderick Long responds to a recent bout of militarism over at Liberty & Power, and his post is worth sharing and expanding upon. Long:
- Jacob [Levy] describes [Michael] Badnarik’s position as a “silly Panglossianism about politics that says, ‘Any wrong must be traceable to another wrong; if only we never did anything wrong, no one would ever do anything wrong to us.'”
Sibel Edmonds Denied Day in Court
And justice for all:
- A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Tuesday by a whistle-blower who alleged security lapses in the FBI’s translator program, ruling that her claims might expose government secrets that could damage national security.
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said he was satisfied with claims by Attorney General John Ashcroft and a senior FBI official that the civil lawsuit by Sibel Edmonds could expose intelligence-gathering methods and disrupt diplomatic relations with foreign governments.
The judge said he couldn’t explain further because his explanation itself would expose sensitive secrets.
Yeah, such as the utter corruption, thuggery, and incompetence of America’s intelligence agencies. But are those really secrets?
(Via the AP.)
The Proudest Day of Dick Gephardt’s Life
In the biggest anticlimax since, oh, John Kerry’s last foreign-policy speech, Kerry picks John Edwards for a running mate. I guess he could have done worse. In related non-news, the Murdoch press maintains its high standards of accuracy.
Another snag in the Milosevic show trial
According to wire and newspaper reports, Slobodan Milosevic, the man Empire loves to hate, may be too ill to stand trial – even a show one, staged so ineptly by the Hague Inquisition over the past two years. His defense, scheduled to begin Monday, was postponed till July 14, due to Milosevic’s ongoing blood pressure problems.
Cartoon from The Guardian (thanks to Ian Miller for the link). Continue reading “Another snag in the Milosevic show trial”
Is It Really So Strange?
The Daily Iowan gives us a shout-out, which is always nice, but it includes an annoyingly common misperception.
- Weird times? Consider this: As I was flipping through the 300 or so websites I have bookmarked, I came across antiwar.com. And there I found an essay by Pat Buchanan.
Yeah. That Pat Buchanan. A right-wing icon writing on a very lefty website. Strange times we live in, indeed.
We get this from letter-writers all the time: “You bunch of leftists/Clinton-lovers/commies, etc.!” Come on, people, how hard is it to read the Who We Are page?