my thoughts on my life and my world
Thanks to tomdispatch.com for this:
On November 14, 2002, the New York Times published a column by William Safire entitled “You Are a Suspect” in which he revealed that DARPA had been given a $200 million budget to compile dossiers on 300 million Americans. He wrote, “Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine [...]
компютриNo End In Sight is a well-made feature-length documentary film which reviews the mistakes made by the Bush Administration in Iraq. I just finished watching it, and it prompted me to write the following observations.
The biggest frustration I have with Bush is that he and his dwindling followers convince themselves that he has been [...]
UPDATE: Now that the event has finished, the archiving begins. You can still hear all the testimony at the links below. But Democracy Now! is devoting a portion of their hour long show every day this week to rebroadcasting portions of it. Go to democracynow.org for more.
Iraq Veterans Against the War
warcomeshome.org/wintersoldier2008
You owe [...]
“What this suggests about the people running America is far worse than if they were simply malevolent super-geniuses: They don’t know the backstory and couldn’t care less. It’s as though we’re riding in the back seat of a car driven by people who demanded the wheel but aren’t sure what the gas pedal does or [...]
From the press kit of Alex Gibney’s new film, Taxi To The Dark Side, releasing in January of 2008:
[T]he issue of “torture” is not really about interrogation techniques. It is about a pandemic of corruption that ensues when the rule of law is weakened. He taught me that torture is like a virulent virus – [...]
