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Tag Archives: war on terror
Are We Special, Or Just Shameless?
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” –Howard Zinn Damn. There’s so much that disturbs me in the following piece, I’m not sure where to start. First, the glaring, obvious idiocy and wrongness … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Dissent, Family & Children, Justice, Law, Media, Military, News and politics, Science & Technology, Security
Tagged American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), American exceptionalism, Amnesty International, Common Dreams, drone strikes, Human Rights Watch, hypocrisy, injustice, innocent victims, New York Times, Open Society Foundations, Pakistan, Reprieve, targeted killings, war on terror, Yemen
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And We Talk Such a Great Game
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” –Howard Zinn “…US drone strikes on average kill 28 unknown people for every intended target.” – Reprieve It’s been a while since high school gym-class archery, … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Dissent, Family & Children, Justice, Law, Media, Military, News and politics, Science & Technology, Security
Tagged American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), CIA, Common Dreams, drone strikes, human rights abuses, indefinite detention, Pakistan, Pakistan-Dawn, Reprieve, Reuters, The Guardian, torture, United Nations Committee Against Torture, US Kill List program, war on terror, Yemenn
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We Must Not Need to Know
“If you don’t read the newspapers, you are uninformed. And if you do read them, you are misinformed.” –Mark Twain “A man’s judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him no news or … Continue reading
Posted in Dissent, Justice, Law, Media, Military, News and politics, Security
Tagged al-Qaeda, Common Dreams, drone strikes, mass protests, media distortions, Vietnam War, war on terror, Western interests, Yemen
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Aren’t All Fugitives Created Equal?
Rome never looks where she treads. Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads … – Rudyard Kipling I’ve been wondering if my country is a modern Roman Empire, or a high-tech barbarian horde. And … Continue reading
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