OMG - they have Viktor Bout!

If you don't know about him, try reading Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible.  It contains a wealth of information, though at times is written as though transcripted from a reporter's notebook... Nonetheless, well worth the read.

Thais to Extradite Arms Suspect to U.S. - NYTimes.com

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 I will not be in DC for the inaugural events but I will be celebrating tonight and tomorrow.  This photo was taken in Baltimore in December 2008.


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There is something wrong with a society that is willing to trample someone to death simply to get to the Rollback Deals, and willing to continue shopping once the emergency staff is out of the way.

Here’s the thing about Americans. You can send their kids off by the thousands to get their balls blown off in foreign lands for no reason at all, saddle them with billions in debt year after congressional year while they spend their winters cheerfully watching game shows and football, pull the rug out from under their mortgages, and leave them ( Read more... )

Just saw this post (thanks to ae), with a video of Dennis Kucinich presenting 35 articles of impeachment in front of the US House of Representatives.  Read the summary of the articles on the linked post - very informative.

Article I
Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq

Article II
Falsely, ( Read more... )

In all of the anti-choice vitriol that flies around on a daily basis and more so during US presidential primaries and the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it seems that in the right wing posturing that many male "family values" - supporting authorities choose to overlook is that there is a basic public health reason that legalizing abortion was even ( Read more... )

Last night I was listening to NPR.  Bush is going to the Middle East again, to help put together a "description" of what a Palestinian state would look like, since he has realized that it will not actually become a state before the end of his term.  What will this description resemble?

Well, all we really know is that it will not look like swiss ( Read more... )

This is interesting: apparently the Supreme Court cannot accept the case because its judges own stock in some of the corporations that are implicated!!!!

The US Supreme Court has said it cannot intervene over the rights of apartheid victims to sue companies for damages.

It said there was potential conflict of interest, as four of the nine justices ( Read more... )

Quote from speech made last week privately to a group of 50 Republicans by Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern [emphasis mine]:
The homosexual agenda [Loud snap] is destroying this nation. OK? It's just a fact. [Volume increases] Not everybody's lifestyle is equal, just like not all religions are equal.

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I've been hearing about AFRICOM for some time now - the US mission to set up a military presence in Africa.  From the little I know, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, president of Liberia, has been courting the US to some extent in hopes that Liberia will be chosen as the home location for AFRICOM.  Ghana rejected the idea, and for now, the base remains in ( Read more... )