Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
Monday, January 19th, 2009
This is a day of hope and change....for lots of people. Especially Haji Bismullah:
For nearly six years, Haji Bismullah, an Afghan detainee at Guantánamo Bay, has insisted that he was no terrorist, but had actually fought the Taliban and had later been part of the pro-American Afghan government.
Over the weekend, ...
Posted in Afghanistan, Bush, Homeland Security, Legal News, Middle East, Politics, Torture | 18 Comments »
Friday, October 10th, 2008
From Jurist:
US military officers feared for the mental health of alleged terrorism detainees held in isolation in the US, according to documents received through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) . The materials released Wednesday are a collection of heavily ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Iraq War, Middle East, Torture, corruption | No Comments »
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
A lot of politics always consists of negativity – Monday-morning quarterbacking, dredging up past sins or mistakes, and general finger-pointing that can sound like kids whining, “I’m telling!” It would be more useful to focus on the future and on the positive – what do we want to change? How ...
Posted in 2008 elections, 4000 dead, Agenda, America, Bush, General, Homeland Security, Impeachment, Iraq, Iraq War, John McCain, Middle East, Military, Miscellaneous, Patriot, Politics, Quagmire, Right Wing Nut, Sarah Palin, Terrorism, War, cheney, security | No Comments »
Monday, July 28th, 2008
It’s because of You. Us. The Netroots.
On May 22nd a House resolution was introduced which would authorize a naval blockade of Iran. With no publicity from that Bush-hating liberal media, H. Con. Res. 362 was sailing through the House. The “leadership” bragged that the bill would “pass like a hot ...
Posted in Iran, Middle East, Military | 2 Comments »
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
According to one theory, oil is the international currency. Might as well be.
Now, putting aside all feelgood rhetoric and wishful thinking, let’s ask the unspeakable question — how much is America worth? According to this calculation, the United States of America is worth 400 billion barrels of oil.
And it just ...
Posted in Economics, Middle East, World News, capitalism | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
When we hear the terms Fatwa or Jihad, we often think about radical Middle Eastern extremists whose intention is to impose their religious beliefs upon those they define as infidels. As Americans, we find the declarations of those leaders (Mullahs, Imams, etc.) who support such actions to be offensive and ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, George W. Bush, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Religion, Rhetoric, Right Wing Nut, Terrorism | 5 Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Can I get a "No Shit Sherlock" from the group?
A recent AP-Yahoo poll shows that consumers don't have a rosy outlook for their financial futures any time soon. Because of high gas prices.
From cancelled vacations to finding new jobs, people are struggling to cope with the high price of fuel. ...
Posted in BIO, Iran, Middle East, Politics, Poll Results | 10 Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
The old fashioned way is using clandestine and/or covert ops by various US governmental agencies. The usual agencies are the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Seymour Hersh addresses these operations in his latest article for the New Yorker.
Mr. Hersh received the information on new covert ops against ...
Posted in CNN, George W. Bush, Iran, Middle East, Military, Politics, Video and Animation | 6 Comments »
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Take a look at the following video and tell me you can't imagine that extreme religious groups in America could ever trigger the same sectarian strife that currently plagues the Middle East. I don't think the thought is that far fetched...and I'm convinced that the evidence supports the contention that ...
Posted in 2008 elections, Agenda, BIO, Bush, GLBT, Gay and Lesbian Rights, George W. Bush, LGBT, Middle East, Obama, Politics, Religion, Rhetoric, Right Wing Nut, Terrorism | 14 Comments »
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
After the attacks on 9/11/2001 many Americans pulled their heads out of the sand and began to ask why anyone would want to do anything so horrible to us. Bill Maher famously asked the same questions in what seemed to a too sympathetic way, by going against the common wisdom ...
Posted in Al Queda, America, BIO, Iraq, Iraq War, John McCain, Middle East, Terrorism, War | 5 Comments »
