Politics
Thursday, 24 February 2011 09:28
by Jacob G. Hornberger
No doubt many American statists celebrated the ouster of Hosni Mubarak as dictator of Egypt in the belief that freedom had arrived for the Egyptian people, given that the country was now experiencing the “order and stability” provided by military rule. But the truth is that military dictatorship isn’t freedom at all; it’s as much tyranny as what the Egyptian people experienced under Mubarak for 30 years.
Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:33
by Jillian York
As Jonathan Capehart noted in PostPartisan last Thursday, the Lara Logan assualt story has “a pernicious staying power.” Indeed, what happened to Logan during her time in Egypt is both horrifying and inexcusable. Logan was, according to reports, brutally beaten and sexually assaulted by a crowd while reporting from Cairo. She was rescued by a group of locals, including women, and is recovering.
Wednesday, 23 February 2011 10:24
Ronald Reagan was right saying:
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."
His type governance, that is, and from administrations that followed, Democrats as ruthless as Republicans.
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011 10:14
By David Swanson
The idea that wars are waged out of humanitarian concern may not at first appear even worthy of response. Wars kill humans. What can be humanitarian about that? But look at the sort of rhetoric that successfully sells new wars:
"This conflict started Aug. 2, when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor. Kuwait, a member of the Arab League and a member of the United Nations, was crushed, its people brutalized. Five months ago, Saddam Hussein started this cruel war against Kuwait; tonight, the battle has been joined."
Wednesday, 23 February 2011 10:05
by Jacob G. Hornberger
More proof that licensing of lawyers doesn’t guarantee that judges won’t engage in judicial idiocy comes out of the state of Oklahoma.
Three days before Christmas, a state judge named Susie Pritchett, whose retirement would become effective on December 31, sentenced a 25-year-old mother of four named Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow to ten years in the state penitentiary.
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The State of Whom? |
| Uri Avnery | |
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Woolrich London Killing: Terrorism or False Flag? |
| Stephen Lendman | |
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Hezbollah and the Syrian Pit |
| Franklin Lamb | |
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Bhopal gas disaster - WikiLeaks reveal US role |
| Proloy Bagchi | |
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Educational Apartheid & Social Inequity |
| Gideon Polya | |
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America's Greatest Challenge |
| Timothy V. Gatto | |
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Murder, Inc. |
| Jacob Hornberger | |
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Remembering Perot: Last Chance for Americans against Globalization |
| Ben Tanosborn | |
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