Sooo, Congress is bothered by a little corruption? Hah! Also, will there be war with North Korea and/or Iran? (9:30):
Posts Tagged ‘George Bush’
Weekend Briefing 29th-30th May 2010
Posted: 30 May 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Alyce Santoro, AP, Argentina, banking, Bush Administration, Dean Baker, DIY, DJP, DPRK, drones, Freedom Flotilla, George Bush, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, ICC, ICJ, indefinite detention, international law, Iran, Japan, Libya, North Korea, NPT, nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia, SDP, terrorism, The Hague, War on Terror
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
Zubaydah’s Torture, Detention Subject of Senate Intelligence Inquiry
Posted: 19 April 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Abu Zubaydah, ACLU, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, black sites, Brent Mickum, Bush Administration, CIA, fascism, George Bush, Gul Rahman, GWOT, human rights, international law, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, libertarian, liberty, Newspeak, NSC, OLC, Pakistan, private contractors, rendition, secret prisons, sleep deprivation, Steven Bradbury, Thailand, torture, torture memos, US, War, War on Terror, waterboarding
Jason Leopold, deputy managing editor at Truthout, reports on the U.S. investigation of the kidnapped, rendition and extensive torture of Abu Zubaydeh. He was regarded as a “high-value detainee” of the Bush Administration—a claim which has since been recanted by the government, after submitting him to secret prisons around the world and numerous application of torture as a ‘guinea pig in an experiment’, a former N.S.C. official said.
Waco and the New Brown Scare
Posted: 19 April 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: 9/11, Andrew Napolitano, anti-Statism, Bill Clinton, Birthers, blowback, Brach Davidians, Bush Administration, Clinton Administration, decentralization, DHS, fascism, FEMA, George Bush, George Tiller, Glenn Beck, Homeland Security, human rights, IRS, James von Brunn, JBS, John Birch Society, Joseph Farah, libertarian, liberty, Mark Potok, Michelle Bachmann, National Surveillance State, Newspeak, nullification, Obama, Obama Administration, Oklahoma City bombing, Osama bin Laden, progressives, Rachel Maddow, right wing extremism, Ron Paul, Saddam Hussein, Sarah Palin, Scott Roeder, seccession, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, tea party movement, Tenthers, terrorism, Timothy McVeigh, UN, US, Waco Massacre, War, War on Terror
Anthony Gregory on the real meanings of Waco and Oklahoma City on their anniversaries and the partisan fearmongering to create loyalty and submission to the ruling class because, of course, no matter who you vote for, the government wins and humanity loses.
[pictured: children murdered by the U.S. government during the Waco Massacre]
Weekend Briefing—9th-10th April 2010
Posted: 10 April 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, banking, Bush Administration, censorship, China, Collateral Murder, corporatism, economy, fascism, finanical crisis, foreign aid, free press, free speech, GATA, George Bush, Gitmo, gold, GOP, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf War syndrome, Haiti, Hamid Karzai, Henry Kissinger, Hugo Chavez, human rights, IED's, international law, Iran, Israel, Joseph Conrad, Kyrgyzstan, Lech Kaczynski, libertarian, Netanyahu, New Orleans, Newspeak, North Korea, Obama Administration, Paul Krugman, Poland, police brutality, price fixing, protests, revolution, Ron Paul, Russia, SLRC, START, Thailand, torture, Turkey, US, Venesulea, War, War on Terror, whistleblowers, Wikileaks
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
The Case for the Impeachment of Barack Obama
Posted: 3 April 2010 by Editors in International AffairsTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, Bagram Air Base, Bush Administration, Convention Against Torture, corporatism, drone attacks, economy, Eric Holder, fascism, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Geneva Conventions, George Bush, Gitmo, government surveillance, Guantanamo Bay, human rights, impeachment, international law, ISAF, law, Lehman Brothers, Middle East, National Surveillance State, NATO, NSA, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Phoenix Program, Predator drones, Stanley McChrystal, Timothy Geithner, torture, UN Charter, US, Vietnam, War, war crimes, War on Terror
Dave Lindorff on Obama: as guilty as Bush, the war criminal.
Arundhati Roy: ‘What is Peace? We Need Resistance and Not Just on the Weekends’ (Video)
Posted: 22 March 2010 by Editors in India-Pakistan; 26/11, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: 26/11, activism, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, American Empire, Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat, Bush Administration, communists, corporatism, democracy, Democracy Now, DN, fascism, Gandhi, genocide, George Bush, GK Pillai, human rights, imperialism, India, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, Kashmir, Kishenji, Koteswar Rao, liberal democracies, Manmohan Singh, Maoist, Mumbai attacks, Naxalites, Newspeak, Obama Administration, occupation, Operation Green Hunt, Pakistan, poverty, resistance, revolution, rigged elections, Taliban, terrorism, US, voting, War, War on Terror
Indian author and dissident Arundhati Roy calls democracy “the biggest scam on Earth” in a climate where so-called ‘democracies’ are the driving forces of war, poverty and disenfranchisement. She provides harsh, educated critiques of the American Empire and India’s U.S.-enabled occupation of Kashmir and oppression within in an interview with Amy Goodman and Anjali Kamat at Democracy Now!
Allegations Federal Reserve Financed Saddam Not ‘Bizarre’ as Bernanke Asserts
Posted: 27 February 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: bailout, banking, Ben Bernanke, Congress, corruption, Donald Rumsfeld, economy, Federal Reserve, fiat money, FMOC, George Bush, Greece, human rights, inflationary tax, international law, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, Iraq War, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, Newspeak, NSA, Reagan Administration, Roert Bridge, Ron Paul, Saddam Hussein, US, War, War on Terror, Watergate, WMD
Robert Bridge at Russia Today refutes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke calling Rep. Ron Paul’s allegations the organization financed Iraq’s arms acquisitions to commit atrocities ‘bizarre’ (5:31):
Israel Approves New Unlawful Settlement Construction in Occupied West Bank
Posted: 1 December 2009 by Editors in Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: al-Quds, Bush Administration, East Jerusalem, Ehud Barak, EU, European Union, fascism, Fatah, George Bush, human rights, international law, Israel, Keidar, law, Mahmoud Abbas, Netanyahu, PA, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Palestinian Authority, peace process, Russia, settlements, UN, UN Security Council, US, West Bank, Zionism
Despite international law, basic morality and international wink-wink rhetoric to the contrary, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has approved the construction of 25 new housing units in an Israeli occupied West Bank settlement.
Joya: Surge Only Magnifies Crime Against Afghanistan
Posted: 30 November 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, American Empire, Bush Administration, Central Asia, fascism, George Bush, Gordon Brown, Hamid Karzai, human rights, imperialism, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, ISAF, Israel, IVAW, Malalai Joya, Middle East, NATO, Newspeak, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, UK, UNDP, US, War, War on Terror
Malalai Joya on the Obama Administration’s coming Afghan Surge to escalate the U.S.-led occupation.
The Pentagon’s Bases in Colombia
Posted: 24 November 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Alvaro Uribe, bolivarian revolution, Brazil, Bush Administration, Colombia, Ecuador, fascism, George Bush, Hugo Chavez, international law, Latin America, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Obama Administration, Ramon Carrizalez, UN, US, Venezuela, War, Zach Mason
Jeramy Scahill on Blackwater’s Covert War in Pakistan (Video)
Posted: 24 November 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Blackwater, Blackwater SELECT, Bush Administration, Central Asia, CIA, Congress, corporatism, counterterrorism, drone program, executive assassination wing, fascism, George Bush, human rights, international law, ISI, James Risen, Jeremy Scahill, JSOC, law, Middle East, military industrial complex, Morning Joe, NY Times, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Predator drones, Taliban, terrorism, US, Uzbekistan, War, war crimes, War on Terror, Xe
Jeremy Scahill, leading journalist on Blackwater/Xe, broke the story at The Nation. He discussed it at Democracy Now! and on “Morning Joe” at msnbc this morning (8:05):
Report: C.I.A. Secret ‘Torture Prison’ Found in Lithuania
Posted: 19 November 2009 by Editors in International AffairsTags: ABC News, black sites, Brian Ross, Bush Administration, CIA, Craig Whitlock, Dalia Grybauskaite, Domas Grigaliunas, extraordinary rendition, fascism, George Bush, human rights, international law, John Sifton, kidnapping, law, libertarian, lithuania, Matthew Cole, NATO, Obama, Obama Adminstration, Poland, rendition, Romania, secret prisons, terrorism, Thailand, torture, US, Vygaudas Usackas, War, War on Terror
Brian Ross and Matthew Cole broke the story last night on the ABC News website. Their report on “Good Morning America” from Thursday morning (2:51):
‘Keiser Report’ – 19 Nov 09 (Video)
Posted: 19 November 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Alan Greenspan, bailout, banking, banksters, Bernie Madoff, Brooksley Born, Bush Administration, capitalism, corporatism, Danny Schechter, economic crisis, economy, fascism, Federal Reserve, George Bush, Goldman Sachs, Great Recession, housing crisis, international law, Keiser Report, law, libertarian, liberty, market-anarchism, Max Reiser, mortgage fraud, neoliberalism, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Administration, OTC derivatives, ponzi scheme, predatory lending, Sharia Law, Stacy Herbert, Taliban, TARP, US, US dollar, Wall Street, War on Terror
Max Keiser, in the premier of his new show on Russia Today, comments on the U.S. funding the Taliban, President Barack Obama’s Asian tour proving U.S. economic desperation, global ‘de-dollarization’ and (of course) Wall Street crooks with Danny Schechter (27:03):
Little Alex in Wonderland 