US Cluster Munitions: 277 Million Boston Bombings. The horror of Boston should be a reminder that the choice of weaponry can be in itself an act of evil.
“Boston Bombs Were Loaded to Maim” is the way The New York Times defined the hideousness of the weapons used, and President Obama made clear that “anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror.” But are we as a society prepared to be judged by that standard? Artificial limbs lined up at the COPE Center in VIentiane, Laos where victims of US cluster bombs can go to receive treatment and rehabiltative services. The president’s deployment of drones that all too often treat innocent civilians as collateral damage comes quickly to mind. It should also be pointed out that the U.S. still maintains a nuclear arsenal and, as our killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese demonstrated, those weapons are inherently, by the president’s definition, weapons of terror. Young People in the Recession - The War Against Youth.
Published in the April 2012 issue Twenty-five years ago young Americans had a chance.
In 1984, American breadwinners who were sixty-five and over made ten times as much as those under thirty-five. The year Obama took office, older Americans made almost forty-seven times as much as the younger generation. Icelanders Avoid Inbreeding Through Online Incest Database. Obama riled up Republicans on contraception, and then delivers a knock-out punch. Nader astonished by ‘lawless militarism’ in Obama’s address. By Eric W.
DolanWednesday, January 25, 2012 19:00 EDT Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader railed against President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address during an appearance Wednesday on Democracy Now. “I think his lawless militarism, that started the speech and ended the speech, was truly astonishing,” he said. “I mean, he was very committed to projecting the American empire, in Obama terms.” “He should be ashamed of himself that he tries to drape our soldiers, who were sent on lawless military missions to kill and die in those countries, unconstitutional wars that violate Geneva conventions and international law and federal statutes, and drape them as if they’ve come back from Iwo Jima or Normandy.” Nader, who has run for president five times, had tried to organize a primary challenge against Obama to “bring the best out of him.” He told Democracy Now that Obama used a lot of “good-sounding words” but had failed to deliver on many of his campaign promises.
Eric W. Communist Obama Marxist Socialist Maoist Progressive - CommieBlaster. How Fox News is helping Barack Obama's re-election bid. A Republican supporter sports a Newt Gingrich badge. 'In the days before he broke from the pack, Gingrich topped the Fox News airtime chart.' Photograph: Michael Nagle/Getty Images Whoever wrote the political rulebook needs to start rewriting it.
Think Again: American Decline - By Gideon Rachman. "We've Heard All This About American Decline Before.
" This time it's different. It's certainly true that America has been through cycles of declinism in the past. Campaigning for the presidency in 1960, John F. Kennedy complained, "American strength relative to that of the Soviet Union has been slipping, and communism has been advancing steadily in every area of the world. " Ezra Vogel's Japan as Number One was published in 1979, heralding a decade of steadily rising paranoia about Japanese manufacturing techniques and trade policies. In the end, of course, the Soviet and Japanese threats to American supremacy proved chimerical. The Chinese challenge to the United States is more serious for both economic and demographic reasons. Japan, of course, also experienced many years of rapid economic growth and is still an export powerhouse. China's economic prowess is already allowing Beijing to challenge American influence all over the world.
Man Takes Viagra, Wears Sweatpants for TSA Pat Down. NASHVILLE INT’L AIRPORT — A Wyoming man walked through a TSA checkpoint with a raging erection on Thursday, daring TSA officers and even fellow passengers to give him an invasive pat down.
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time. ‘Some Will Call Me a Torturer’: CIA Man Reveals Secret Jail. Admitting that “some will call me a torturer” is a surefire way to cut yourself off from anyone’s sympathy.
But Glenn Carle, a former CIA operative, isn’t sure whether he’s the hero or the villain of his own story. Distilled, that story, told in Carle’s new memoir The Interrogator, is this: In the months after 9/11, the CIA kidnaps a suspected senior member of al-Qaida and takes him to a Mideast country for interrogation. Why Socialism? This Is Why... Socialism: a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
Yep, it’s time for another political statement. Often when I take the time to write these, I get very interesting comments and emails, so I am sure this time will be no different.