The ties that bind two leftist ideologues and an arch terrorist.
Three Blind Mice: Zinn, Chomsky, Bin Laden
February 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Every so often we experience what Jung called synchronicity—the sudden perception of a possibly meaningful pattern in apparently unrelated events. I had one of these moments myself last week.
The first element was the passing of Howard Zinn. I believe as much as the next guy that every man’s death diminishes [...]
How the U.S. Creates Jihadists: the World According to Amy Goodman
January 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In 2008, the Pentagon estimated that 11 percent of all released Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) detainees had rejoined militant groups. Last April, the figure had risen to 14 percent. A just released Pentagon report cites a really sobering statistic: 20 percent of all released Gitmo terrorists have returned to their former militant existence.
If you are at [...]
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Feel the Need to Express Your Political Views? In China, that Will Get You Serious Jail Time.
December 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Liu Xiaobo lives under the repressive communist Chinese system. Liu Xiaobo is going to jail. His crime? He’s a blogger who dared to call for basic freedoms in China. For that act, Liu has earned himself an 11-year sentence, and unfortunately for Liu, in the Chinese penal system that means hard labor.
Let’s have another communist [...]
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Home for the Holidays: Obama Frees 12 More Gitmo Terrorists
December 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Holding true to his campaign promise to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo), Cuba, President Barack Obama has again made the world a little less safe, by releasing twelve more jihadists from that facility over the weekend.
Four Afghans, two Somalis, and six Yemenis were sent back home, presumably to live happily ever after. [...]
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Obama Opens up Another Front
December 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Sometimes reality has a way of getting in the way of your campaign promises.
Despite his earlier rhetoric about ending the conflicts initiated by George W. Bush, and just a couple of weeks after collecting his Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama gave the order for a military strike which was carried out against al-Qaeda terrorists [...]
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Kill Capitalism and Save the Earth: the World According to Evo Morales
December 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday, at the “Climate Summit” in Copenhagen, Denmark (an event that has degenerated into a world-wide Marx-fest), Amy Goodman, the sycophantic Marxist host of Democracy Now!, had the extreme pleasure (for her) to interview Evo Morales, the Marxist President of Bolivia, a country which is, despite being rich in natural resources, one of the poorest [...]
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Obama Has Just Made the Country a Lot Less Safe: Moving Gitmo Terrorists to Illinois
December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In one of his dumbest acts as President, Barack Obama will be taking some of the most hardened terror suspects being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transferring them to the currently abandoned Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois.
As Amy Goodman describes it on Democracy Now!:
The Obama administration has confirmed plans for the eventual transfer of [...]
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The UN’s Biggest “Peacekeeping” Failure
December 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
According to Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been complicit in the killings of innocent civilians in that country.
Citing a new report from Human Rights Watch, the UN’s Congo mission, known by its French acronym MONUC, “has abetted the killings of at least 1,400 [...]
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Progressives go to War over…War
December 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The purpose of all war is peace—Saint Augustine: The City of God
While President Barack Obama was in Oslo, Norway yesterday accepting his Nobel Peace Prize (while at the same time justifying his troop surge in Afghanistan), back home Congressman and fellow progressive Democrat Dennis Kucinich was busy metaphorically pulling the red carpet out from under [...]
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