Archive for March 6th, 2006
And America learned nothing from the Abu Ghraib scandal obviously. Or perhaps they don’t care at all. This is sending a pretty powerful message too, as I’ve pointed out before, in that it reminds the world what happens to those that defy the empire. Like prisoners in ancient Rome being dragged before a jeering amphitheatre [...]
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March 6th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
Cronyism and Corruption; Wolfowitz at the World Bank Those that thought having Paul Wolfowitz stowed away at the World Bank would make us any safer, and pointed out that he was the “good” neo-conservative, the result so far is a complete disaster. Cronyism has never been as dangerous, because in Wolfowitz’s case it means pals [...]
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March 6th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
By now few could have missed how Jay Bennish has become the unwitting center of attention in the battle over America’s high school teachers and university professors. In this Orwellian society of harassing and smoking out dissenters under the pretence of doing good for the Fatherland, it seems a cleansing of the academia is in [...]
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March 6th, 2006
Björn Hallberg