Bit by bit …
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President’s ability to deploy troops within the [...]
Continue Reading October 29th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Israel Admits Using Phosphorous Bombs in Lebanon - “Israel has acknowledged for the first time that it attacked Hezbollah targets during the second Lebanon war with phosphorus shells. White phosphorus causes very painful and often lethal chemical burns to those hit by it, and until recently Israel maintained that it only uses such bombs to [...]
Continue Reading October 27th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
We knew the number was in the thousands (14,000?), but this latest indication is surely shocking.
I’m at the Center for American Progress, listening to Sid Blumenthal and Glenn Greenwald talk about the Imperial Presidency, and one thing is important enough for me to want to live blog. Sid says that Wilkerson, Powell’s old chief of [...]
Continue Reading October 25th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Bush signs torture bill; Americans lose essential freedom
George W. Bush got what he wanted, ostensibly as a tool in his unfocused “war on terror”: By signing into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Bush has made it legal for the C.I.A. to continue operating torture facilities in undisclosed, foreign countries, and for the writ [...]
Continue Reading October 18th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Facing Up To 30 Years in Prison, Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Speaks Out As She Heads To Courthouse for Sentencing In the end she got 28 months for breaking the Kafkaesque silence surrounding the case. "Many argue that the government’s aim is to discourage them from representing unpopular clients." Ironically, the trial was held [...]
Continue Reading October 17th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon will become the eighth U.N. secretary-general on January 1st. Best case scenario is that he is exactly the vegetable that he seems. Worst case scenario is that the U.S. has some sort of hold over him, seeing as the American influence over South Korea is still substantial. Even worse, [...]
Continue Reading October 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
America’s murderous cannons roar. The US has now — directly and indirectly — violently killed more people than Saddam in Iraq, and in less time too.
This study, “The Human Cost of the War in Iraq,” puts civilian fatalities at 426,369 to 793,663 but gives a 95% certainty to the figure of 601,027.
Human Rights Watch has [...]
Continue Reading October 11th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Because as we all know, America has a monopoly on writing history.
Japan’s controversial Yasukuni shrine is to review a controversial display that says the US provoked Japan into entering WWII, Japanese media reports.
The US government complained about the exhibit, which claims that a US economic embargo forced Japan into war.
Not only is the idea [...]
Continue Reading October 10th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Stephen M. Walt on Misreading the tea leaves: US missteps on foreign policy
First, officials misunderstood how other states see US primacy. Convinced that American power was a force for good, Bush thought other states would welcome US leadership as long as he acted decisively. In fact, US primacy made even longstanding allies nervous because they [...]
Continue Reading October 9th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
New Bush Space Policy Unveiled, Stresses U.S. Freedom of Action … that is to say, actively limiting the freedom of everyone else. All in all inching closer to full-spectrum dominance and the weaponization of space.
Additionally, the Bush space policy is designed to “ensure that space capabilities are available in time to further U.S. national security, [...]
Continue Reading October 9th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
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