Apr 26 2008

NYPD, Secret Police & Unaccountability

Tag: Uncategorizedsal @ 1:02 am

Outrage and disgust is the only reaction a reasonable person can feel about the acquittal
of three NYPD secret police (undercover officers in Orwellian terms) who after drinking and viewing scantily clad women in a Queens N.Y. bar
assassinated an unarmed young man, Sean Bell, on his wedding day
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Apr 08 2008

Mugabe’s motivations

Tag: Politicssal @ 3:48 am

It’s hard to tell what happened in zimbabwe under robert mugabe
because for one thing i doubt
we are ever given a complete picture of the situation there

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Mar 22 2008

Media Coverage, the Cult of the Military & the Iraq War’s 5th Anniversary

Tag: Uncategorizedmew @ 8:14 am

Hearing pundits, journalists and military spokespeople analyze progress on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion seems to me an exercise in selective memory, wishful thinking and just plain p.r. spin. When i hear the current situation compared to the most violent period of the insurgency I wonder what the average person’s life before 2003, people went to school, sat in cafes, lived in mixed neighborhoods and women for the most part went about their business without harassment. Was the former regime though brutal “making progress”.

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Mar 19 2008

Chavez vs. Columbia

Tag: Uncategorizedmew @ 8:22 am

jeez
to me that incursion into Ecuador seems like a U.S. inspired provocation
remember Columbia has been a client state for a while
with tens of billions of our dollars given to the right wing columbian goverment
ostensibly for drug eradication
but really it has been used for left wing eradication

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Mar 18 2008

Castro retires

Tag: Uncategorizedmew @ 8:23 am

i’d like to visit cuba before he dies
i can’t say what will happen there after he’s gone
but i’m pretty sure the people of cuba
won’t let right wing exiles
or the u.s. goverment set their agenda


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