Sayeth the New York Times:
The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen.
Martyr for Mohammed or Justice? (Or both?)
Glenn Greenwald lays it out over at Slate: Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen.
No trial. Not even a military tribunal. Not even a, “Hey, aren’t you …?” Just shoot.
Mall Girls
Young capitalism gets right to it. No fussing around. No bourgeois middle men, no polite hypocrisy — just unvarnished body for stuff.
Al Qaeda does not exist.
Never existed.
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Yes. Don’t take my word for it; listen as Naomi Klein explains why.
Sometimes, apparently. Is it bragging when the Jerusalem Post reports how Olmert bullies Bush and Rice into voting against a UN resolution she helped write?
http://www.ifamericansknew.org looks interesting.
A new chapter in Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has been posted at History is a Weapon. It’s about The 2000 Election and the “War on Terrorism”. You should read it.
Zinn excerpts Robert Bowman, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel who flew combat missions in Viet Nam, suggesting a novel foreign policy: “[W]e should do good instead of evil.” I suppose King George II would respond, “But that’s what we are doing, that’s what I’ve been saying all along, we’re the good guys here.” Bowman, though, is a Catholic bishop, so the good/evil split he emphasizes is the classical, simple dictionary definition; good is good, and evil is bad — not the what’s-good-for-General-Motors-is-good and what’s-bad-for-United-Fruit-is-evil crap that KGII means.
Here are a few nice bits from Bowman’s piece:
We are not hated because we practice democracy, freedom and human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations.
Instead of sending our sons and daughters around the world to kill Arabs so we can have the oil under their sand, we should send them to rebuild their infrastructure, supply clean water and feed starving children . . . Instead of training terrorists and death squads, we should close the School of the Americas. Instead of supporting insurrection, destabilization, assassination and terror around the world, we should abolish the CIA and give the money to relief agencies.
Crazy nut. Read Truth is, we’re terrorized because we’re hated — it’s short.
