Archive for the ‘War on Terror aka GSAVE®’ Category
At Long Last, Someone Will Face a Waterboarding Related Prosecution
So much fail: The Justice Department on Monday charged a former Central Intelligence Agency officer with disclosing classified information to journalists about the capture and brutal interrogation of a suspected member of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah — adding another chapter to the Obama administration’s unprecedented crackdown on leaks. In a criminal complaint filed on Monday, [...]
January 23, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
189 Comments
Posted in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Iraq: An Ending, of Sorts
(Jeff Danziger’s website) “We” should never have gone there in the first place, “we” had no business doing what we did or hanging around as long as we did, but President Obama deserves credit for checking off another item on his campaign-promises list. From Andre Tartar at NYMag’s Daily Intel: The last U.S. military convoy [...]
December 18, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 125 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, War, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
When They Do It, It is Called Warmongering
When we do it, we call it national security: The recent crash of a U.S. spy drone inside Iran offers a glimpse at the growing secret effort by Washington to curb the nuclear program of its longtime foe, the Associated Press reports. Iran last week released video footage of what it says is an intact [...]
December 12, 2011
· John Cole · 71 Comments
Posted in: War, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Keep Your Enemies Close, Keep Pakistan Closer
Pakistan is pretty pissed off right now as a NATO gunship assault on a border checkpoint near Afghanistan has resulted in at least 26 dead Pakistani soldiers so far. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called an emergency meeting of military services chiefs to formulate his country’s response, his spokesman said. The Defense Committee [...]
November 26, 2011
· Zandar · 145 Comments
Posted in: Military, Security Theatre, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
The War Against Ourselves
The key component of any Republican argument is a tautology involving whatever it is they don’t like being the greatest threat to our universe since the Weeping Angels. As yesterday was Veteran’s Day, at least one Republican from Tennessee has decided that the Big Bad threat is Muslims in our military. State representative Rick Womick [...]
November 12, 2011
· Zandar · 140 Comments
Posted in: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Republican Venality, Security Theatre, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, The Brown Enemy Within, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
What Is Wrong With People?
This is just a sad and disgusting tale: The recording was a suicide message, posted online on Sunday by an Islamist militia aligned with Al Qaeda. The voice was said to be that of Abdisalan Hussein Ali, 22, who was born in Somalia but spent his formative years in Minneapolis. His life appeared to have [...]
October 31, 2011
· John Cole · 95 Comments
Posted in: Religion, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Saturday Evening Open Thread
Don’t know if there will ever be another BJ Book Group, but I’m looking forward to reading Wonkette’s latest recommendation: The U.S. State Department has been known to make noise about protecting free speech around the world. Writers and bloggers, the department says, should be allowed to publish their opinions even if they conflict with [...]
October 8, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 118 Comments
Posted in: Books, Open Thread, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
I Liked This Movie Better When It Starred Hal Holbrook
This is just nuts. It’s un-American, surely illegal, and a real mark on the Obama Presidency. Just fucking nuts. And evil. This really is a situation in which Obama is worse than Bush.
October 6, 2011
· John Cole · 497 Comments
Posted in: OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Ten Years Later
This story of how three Americans were yanked off a plane, taken into custody, strip-searched and humiliated, all for the crime of flying while brown on 9/11 is a must read. And people want to argue that bin Laden didn’t win.
September 13, 2011
· John Cole · 147 Comments
Posted in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Rare Agreement
Paul Krugman: What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced [...]
September 12, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 61 Comments
Posted in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
These Boots Are Made For Walking
So, ten years after 9/11, have we come to our senses and stopped spending a trillion on defense and “national security” and surveillance? No. Will we gtfo of Afghanistan and Iraq? No. Will we stop using the Patriot Act for hings like the drug war? Of course not. But we do have this: Air travelers [...]
September 6, 2011
· John Cole · 128 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Because NineElevenNineElevenNineElevenAreYOUSomeKindaTerrorist?!?
Watch the full episode. See more POV. Jay Gould is supposed to have said, “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” As it turns out, that works as well among modern-day activists as it did for Gilded Age factory hands. From the NYTimes review of “Better This World”: [...]
September 5, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 10 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, C.R.E.A.M., Election 2008, Security Theatre, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
The Terror Racket
Via Glennzilla, this: “The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It’s basically the same number of people who die drowning in the bathtub each year,” said John Mueller, an Ohio State University professor who has written extensively about the [...]
August 30, 2011
· John Cole · 63 Comments
Posted in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Hooray! We Got Him!
We just killed another terrorist you and I have never heard of, and presumably this time we win: A drone operated by the Central Intelligence Agency killed Al Qaeda’s second-ranking figure in the mountains of Pakistan on Monday, American and Pakistani officials said Saturday, further damaging a terrorism network that appears significantly weakened since the [...]
August 28, 2011
· John Cole · 212 Comments
Posted in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Hearts and Minds
Imagine it is 6 o’clock in the morning. You just woke up, brewed yourself a cup of coffee, and are sitting on the porch having a smoke, enjoying the morning air, thinking about what you have to accomplish today. Maybe your dog is with you, maybe you are chatting with your next door neighbor, who [...]
June 15, 2011
· John Cole · 186 Comments
Posted in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
