Archive for April, 2003
ACLU sues Gov’t over “no fly” list
From Talk Left:
The ACLU filed suit today against the federal government’s secret “no fly” list at San Francisco Airport.
Government knows Moussaoui wasn’t part of Sept. 11
From Talk Left:
In short, the Government knows Moussaoui wasn’t part of Sept. 11–but to convict him on the conspiracy charge and have him sentenced to death, it must prove he was part of the September 11 conspiracy because that’s what it elected to charge him with. If Moussaoui is part of a different conspiracy […]
Surprise! Radical Islam wants power in post-war Iraq
From Daily Kos:
Ahh, the forces of Democracy and freedom continue to consolidate their gains in Iraq. Well, except that the nation’s largest minority group is agitating for an early US withdrawl and the establishment of an Iran-friendly repressive Islamic state.
And somehow, this has “surprised” US planners .
…And lest anyone blame our intelligence services, remember […]
Communal violence in India and the “Tribal” population
This is a very fascinating document about the role of “Tribals” in India’s communal riots. Ganesh Devy argues that the indigenous peoples of India engaged in mob violence for very different reasons than the Hindus:
It would be completely wrong to assume that the rioting in support of Hindutva was something that the tribals wanted at […]
How cynical can you get? Not as cynical as Bush!
Cynical Bush is scheduling his election campaign to coincide with the anniversary of 9-11:
President Bush’s advisers have drafted a re-election strategy built around staging the latest nominating convention in the party’s history, allowing Mr. Bush to begin his formal campaign near the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and to enhance his fund-raising advantage, […]
Iraqi water - more troublesome than oil?
Water: yet another of the longer-term problems for Uncle Sam’s occupation government to deal with. Not only is Turkey hogging the stuff (allegedly), but, it seems , some bright spark has a truly brave idea for creating water mayhem in Iraq which needs no foreign intervention.
Stand Down
Only good immigrant a dead immigrant? Bush thinks so…
“There’s something terribly wrong with our immigration policies if it takes death on the battlefield in order to earn citizenship,” Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles wrote to President Bush this month.
SF Chronicle
It seems not to register with many Israelis that they are occupiers
It seems not to register with many Israelis that they are occupiers and as such have inescapable responsibilities towards those in their custody and an obligation to end the occupation as speedily as possible. It is an obligation reinforced by Israel’s decision after the 1967 war not to grant citizenship and equal rights in the […]
Why is this recession different from all other recessions?
The first President George Bush won the first Gulf War. A year later he lost the presidency because the economy was in the tank. Will the second George Bush suffer the same fate? There is one big difference that should work in his favour. The first Bush’s recession started after the first Gulf War, while […]
Iraqi doctors helped save Jessica Lynch
Iraqi Doctors hid Jessica Lynch from Iraqi intelligence agents:
Private Lynch was kept alone in a single room, where her nurses would sing her to sleep each night. But as the shelling and shooting intensified near Nasiriya, her doctors moved her to a crowded ward. It was better to hide her in plain sight, they said. […]
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