Spain leaves Iraq
As reported by AlJazeera, CNN and MSNBC…
Spain troops have fully withdrawn from Iraq! Yupppie
The coalition of the not-so-willing is becoming less and less willing.
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The true price of democracy
Ugh. From AlJazeera:
“Rashid Hamid Wali, an Aljazeera television worker, was killed early Friday morning while filming clashes in the flashpoint Iraqi city of Karbala. “He looked up to try to locate the place of the US military vehicles, but he was shot in the head by machine guns,” said Muhammad.
He died instantly. There was […]
Bushism/Fascism and its discontents…
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the […]
All there is to be said…
“To our friends in Rafah,
We cannot stand, as Rachel stood, between your homes and families and the IDF bulldozers and tanks. But we have stood with friends on the streets of your sister city, Olympia, and we have called our Congress and our State Department to demand this atrocity stop. Please know that we hear […]
Asscroft loses lawsuit against Greenpeace protestors.
Score: One for dissent. Zero (?) for fascism.
Woo. Go Greenpeace!
From msnbc:
MIAMI - A judge threw out federal charges Wednesday against Greenpeace for a protest in which members of the environmental group clambered aboard a cargo ship loaded with Amazon mahogany.
Greenpeace was charged under an 1872 law — not used in more than […]
Insightful….
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its […]
And so it continues…
I spent a couple of amazing weeks on the road with the Wheels of Justice Bus.
It was really wonderful to get out into the country and really get to talk with people who are being affected by the insane policies of our government. I’ve spoken at both private and public universities, public […]