Molly Ivins: Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006)
With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a cornerstone of legal justice since the Magna Carta.
NYT Editorial: Rushing Off a Cliff
Here’s what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill [...]
Continue Reading September 29th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Someone is having trouble abiding by international law.
Maduro told CNN Espanol shortly after being released that he was confined to a small room and told to remove his clothes.
Maduro said that when he explained that he was the Venezuelan foreign minister and showed his diplomatic passport, he said he was threatened, pushed and yelled at [...]
Continue Reading September 24th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
It’s hard not to be impressed by Hugo Chavez’s antics in the UN General Assembly this past week. While he didn’t levy the most effective criticism, and while direct criticism of Bush is always running the risk of deflecting deeper and more systematic criticism of the US, the quip was nevertheless hilarious and there is [...]
Continue Reading September 23rd, 2006 Björn Hallberg
America does a bang-up job of appropriating war crimes, doing the civilized, responsible thing — as long as the war crimes in question are long past, far away and don’t directly involve Americans. And adding to the definition, it of course helps if the appropriation can produce some sort of blunt rhetorical device to deflect [...]
Continue Reading September 21st, 2006 Björn Hallberg
In what is starting to resemble an “anti-U.S.” manifesto Non-Aligned nations come together, offering a blistering criticism and a greater unity.
Washington’s biggest enemies, from communist Cuba to North Korea, called on developing nations on Saturday to challenge U.S. dominance through a revived Non-Aligned Movement labelled a Cold War relic by critics.
More than 50 heads of [...]
Continue Reading September 17th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
But at the same time has the tenacity to point the finger at Chavez for alleged meddling. Now that seems a bit hypocritical. As the Sandinistas stand poised for a comeback and what could be a fair chance to realize the social reform that they were once prevented by means of state-sponsored terrorism, the U.S. [...]
Continue Reading September 15th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
U.S. caught with pants down, lying about Iran. What a shocker.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has written a scathing letter to a congressional committee saying part of its case against Iran is “outrageous and dishonest.”
The report came a day before an Iranian opposition figure accused Iran of using lasers to enrich uranium in its bid [...]
Continue Reading September 15th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Too bad for the American empire builders who wanted to cut a swath across Eastern Europe and Asia, encompassing former USSR republics and isolating Russia. At least for now their plans seem to have ground to a halt. Without Ukraine onboard there is really no point in pursuing this course of action as the containment [...]
Continue Reading September 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The blood thirst knew no limits. Impotent jewish supremacists exacted collective punishment as they pulled back.
“What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
Quoting his battalion commander, the [...]
Continue Reading September 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Hot on the heals of the U.S. officially admitting to the existence of a network of secret prison facilities spanning the globe, and just in time for the 9/11 anniversary and the midterm elections comes a sizzling hot ‘new’ pre-9/11 tape allegedly featuring Osama bin Laden as he is being chummy with men who allegedly [...]
Continue Reading September 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
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