Roderick Long responds to a recent bout of militarism over at Liberty & Power, and his post is worth sharing and expanding upon. Long:
And justice for all:
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said he was satisfied with claims by Attorney General John Ashcroft and a senior FBI official that the civil lawsuit by Sibel Edmonds could expose intelligence-gathering methods and disrupt diplomatic relations with foreign governments.
The judge said he couldn’t explain further because his explanation itself would expose sensitive secrets.
Yeah, such as the utter corruption, thuggery, and incompetence of America’s intelligence agencies. But are those really secrets?
(Via the AP.)
In the biggest anticlimax since, oh, John Kerry’s last foreign-policy speech, Kerry picks John Edwards for a running mate. I guess he could have done worse. In related non-news, the Murdoch press maintains its high standards of accuracy.
According to wire and newspaper reports, Slobodan Milosevic, the man Empire loves to hate, may be too ill to stand trial – even a show one, staged so ineptly by the Hague Inquisition over the past two years. His defense, scheduled to begin Monday, was postponed till July 14, due to Milosevic’s ongoing blood pressure problems.
Cartoon from The Guardian (thanks to Ian Miller for the link). Continue reading “Another snag in the Milosevic show trial”
The Daily Iowan gives us a shout-out, which is always nice, but it includes an annoyingly common misperception.
Yeah. That Pat Buchanan. A right-wing icon writing on a very lefty website. Strange times we live in, indeed.
We get this from letter-writers all the time: “You bunch of leftists/Clinton-lovers/commies, etc.!” Come on, people, how hard is it to read the Who We Are page?
Leave it to Laura Silber, author of a major propaganda pamphlet about the destruction of Yugoslavia and now a “senior policy advisor” for George Soros’s Open Society Institute, to lay out in the open Empire’s plans for Serbia.
In an opinion piece for the New York Times-owned International Herald Tribune today, titled “Serbian voters bring good tidings,” Silber gushes over the election of Boris Tadic as the last best hope to “set this geographic lynchpin [i.e. Serbia] right once and for all.” Her policy prescriptions are as cringe-worthy as her prose… Continue reading “Tadic: Empire’s Dark Horse?”
