Henry Norr has been suspended from the San Francisco Chronicle because the Chronicle doesn’t like his views on the war. Ummm, can we say “lawsuit”? Papers have a legitimate need to make sure their journalists don’t have conflicts of interest, and so there could exist circumstances where a journalist’s private political activities might be taken […]
The Jon Stewart Show on Comedy Central is too funny. Watch this video where Jon discusses the contract the Bush administration has given Cheney’s former company Halliburton. Thanks to On Lisa Rein’s Radar.
Follow-up to my earlier entry on the US using napalm in Iraq (and denying it) and now apparently covering it up?
If you search Google News for “napalm” you’ll find this entry on the second page:
CIA: It really was Saddam on TV
San Jose Mercury News, CA - Mar 20, 2003
… In addition, about 20 GPS-guided 2000-pound bombs, […]
This New York Times article reports that the World Trade Organization has ruled that the Bush Administration’s 30% hike in steel tariffs last year was illegal. The shocking part of this article is that this is the seventh time now that the U.S. has lost such challenges. Can’t someone in Washington take a hint? Time […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Lawrence v. Texas, a case in which a neighbor falsely reported a disturbance next door in order to have police find his neighbor, Mr. Lawrence, engaged in sex with another man. Texas is one of several states that outlaws sodomy only for same-sex couples, but allows […]
Lawrence Lessig discusses a tragic proposal being considered by the Mexican Congress. Mexico would extend copyright from the life of the author plus 70 years, to the life of the author plus 100 years. Also, “at the end of the copyright term, the government has the right to charge royalties for works in the “public […]
The former U.S. Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, has drafted these articles of impeachment of President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John David Ashcroft. Also, there was a rumor going around that Representative John Conyers wanted to know what the support was for […]
It is a terrible thing to see. It makes me want to cry, scream, and then cry again. But, I think it is an important thing to see. It is easy to say, “We are so proud of our troops who are willing to sacrifice their lives.” And we are. We should be. But it […]
This piece is as well-done as it is frightening. Link from Alan Bostick.
According to this article, the United States dropped napalm on Safwan Hill in Iraq. Conveniently, the US was not a signatory to the 1980 weapons convention which prohibits such actions. When Bush said he wanted to destroy weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, I’m not sure anyone realized he meant our weapons of mass destruction […]