Thursday, March 05, 2009
Congress is just filled with pieces of shit.
It turns out that there is some talk about conditioning the aid for Gaza, announced by Hillary, with the release of the prisoner, Gilad Shalit, the soldier captured by Hamas. So it is okay for Israel to kidnap non-military personnel to use as "bargaining chips" but not okay for the other side to capture a soldier. From where I sit, it seems as if the detention of thousands of non-military related Palestinians is a far greater crime than the capture of an enemy soldier. Maybe I am missing something here but I really am unsure what it is.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Oligarchy?
If memory serves me right, Socrates said that the next step from a democracy was an oligarchy. I believe, it has been a while, his reasoning was that the rich would eventually dominate and control democracy through their power and take over the reins. Of course, it has been quite some time since I last read the Republic but I think they were on to something. It is amazing to think that Socrates was around 500 years before Jesus. It kind of makes Jesus look like a moron.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Whoo whoo New President
Finally our nightmare is over and the least qualified man in history has left the Presidency. The fact that 1/2 the American population defended him for eight years says quite a bit about the intellect of Americans. Though my happiness at having a new President doesn’t end there. Now finally all the idiots who reflexively attacked Bush, with very little knowledge, will fade away and the real critics of American power will no longer be grouped in with those people.
I so look forward to attacking Obama’s administration as I did Bush’s. And from what it seems that shouldn’t be too difficult. The fact alone that he has surrounded himself with Clintonistas should automatically generate critique. Just imagine what terrible things Hillary is going to say about the Palestinian civilians. Then there is Larry Summers, I mean, cmon, this shit is going to write itself.
Now I just need to get back to posting regularly and from the looks of it, it shouldn’t be hard.
I so look forward to attacking Obama’s administration as I did Bush’s. And from what it seems that shouldn’t be too difficult. The fact alone that he has surrounded himself with Clintonistas should automatically generate critique. Just imagine what terrible things Hillary is going to say about the Palestinian civilians. Then there is Larry Summers, I mean, cmon, this shit is going to write itself.
Now I just need to get back to posting regularly and from the looks of it, it shouldn’t be hard.
Monday, January 12, 2009
I wondered what journalism was.
Finally I know the answer. Too bad american journalists are nothing but propagandists.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Some thoughts on the slaughter.
Statement by Prof. Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
By: RIchard Falk
The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war.
The IAF, bullies of the clear blue skies
By: Gideon Levy
Our finest young men are attacking Gaza now. Good boys from good homes are doing bad things. Most of them are eloquent, impressive, self-confident, often even highly principled in their own eyes, and on Black Saturday dozens of them set out to bomb some of the targets in our "target bank" for the Gaza Strip.
Party to Murder
By: Chris Hedges
Can anyone who is following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza—the buildings blown to rubble, the children killed on their way to school, the long rows of mutilated corpses, the wailing mothers and wives, the crowds of terrified Palestinians not knowing where to flee, the hospitals so overburdened and out of supplies they cannot treat the wounded, and our studied, callous indifference to this widespread human suffering—wonder why we are hated?
From the ashes of Gaza
By Tariq Ali
The assault on Gaza, planned over six months and executed with perfect timing, was designed largely, as Neve Gordon has rightly observed, to help the incumbent parties triumph in the forthcoming Israeli elections. The dead Palestinians are little more than election fodder in a cynical contest between the right and the far right in Israel
If Gaza falls . . .
By: Sara Roy
Israel’s siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then.
How can keeping food and medicine from the people of Gaza protect the people of Israel? How can the impoverishment and suffering of Gaza’s children – more than 50 per cent of the population – benefit anyone? International law as well as human decency demands their protection. If Gaza falls, the West Bank will be next.
By: RIchard Falk
The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war.
The IAF, bullies of the clear blue skies
By: Gideon Levy
Our finest young men are attacking Gaza now. Good boys from good homes are doing bad things. Most of them are eloquent, impressive, self-confident, often even highly principled in their own eyes, and on Black Saturday dozens of them set out to bomb some of the targets in our "target bank" for the Gaza Strip.
Party to Murder
By: Chris Hedges
Can anyone who is following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza—the buildings blown to rubble, the children killed on their way to school, the long rows of mutilated corpses, the wailing mothers and wives, the crowds of terrified Palestinians not knowing where to flee, the hospitals so overburdened and out of supplies they cannot treat the wounded, and our studied, callous indifference to this widespread human suffering—wonder why we are hated?
From the ashes of Gaza
By Tariq Ali
The assault on Gaza, planned over six months and executed with perfect timing, was designed largely, as Neve Gordon has rightly observed, to help the incumbent parties triumph in the forthcoming Israeli elections. The dead Palestinians are little more than election fodder in a cynical contest between the right and the far right in Israel
If Gaza falls . . .
By: Sara Roy
Israel’s siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then.
How can keeping food and medicine from the people of Gaza protect the people of Israel? How can the impoverishment and suffering of Gaza’s children – more than 50 per cent of the population – benefit anyone? International law as well as human decency demands their protection. If Gaza falls, the West Bank will be next.
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