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This illustration of abject servility to power is not, regrettably, unique. But the spectacle is particularly disgusting when the world’s most powerful state crushes under its boot, once again, the poorest country in the hemisphere, as it has been doing in one or another way for 200 years, at first in understandable fear of a rebellion that established the first free country of free men right next door to a leading slave state, and on to the present. It is a depressing illustration of how a highly disciplined intellectual class can reframe even the most depraved actions as yet another opportunity for self-adulation.
noam chomsky interview ‘counterpunch’
thank you noam for a minute of clarity
still steel
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Aug 3 2004 1:23 utc | 101
I’ve been out-of-town for over a month and now that I’m home, I’m delighted to discover you folks found a way to keep the conversation going from the Whiskey Bar. It’s good to see some familiar faces around here.
I heard no news programs, read no newspapers and didn’t even check email for the whole month. Now I understand how seductive being uninformed is – it’s a hell of a lot easier than trying to stay current with what is happening.
The problem is that after such a long time away, re-entry is a bit disorienting.
Hello and warm greetings to everybody.
Posted by: Sassy | Aug 3 2004 2:24 utc | 102
The situation in Iraq right now is not as bad as the news media are portraying it to be. It’s worse.
…These are painful observations for me to make, because in early April, I wrote on this page that the media had been underplaying the good things happening in Iraq, and were missing the potential for a turnaround….
Facing up to reality in Iraq
Posted by: Nemo | Aug 3 2004 2:56 utc | 103
Welcome home again Sassy, sip slowly because alas, all the news is not good.
Posted by: Nemo | Aug 3 2004 2:58 utc | 104
Ah, Nemo… I think Sassy should do exactly the opposite. Dive in, like when it’s hot outside and there is a cool lake calling your name.
Dive in Sassy, and welcome home from vacation, rested and ready. 😉
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Aug 3 2004 4:10 utc | 105
Man of the people? Yes, the people at CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia
Even as Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi attempts to assert his nation’s newly restored sovereignty, he travels through his own turbulent land and around the Middle East with a protection detail supplied by the U.S. military.
Allawi’s accompaniment by gun-toting Americans – in plainclothes but with U.S. flags on their vests – has been noted with dismay by some critics in Iraq and the Arab world as a visible symbol of his dependence on the United States, experts on the region say…
….the security detail consists of U.S. Special Forces commandos, including Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, backed up by other soldiers…
Despite handover, Iraqi leader uses U.S. guards
Posted by: Nemo | Aug 3 2004 4:48 utc | 106
@NEMO:
If I were he, I’d be riding around in a Humvee towable little Red Wagon, surrounded all sides and bottom, with 8-10 inches armor plate,and the usual accompaniment of serious hired guns all around.
Posted by: Harold | Aug 3 2004 5:00 utc | 107
For America’s safety
Iraqi woman’s story, detained and tortured by US military
Posted by: Nemo | Aug 3 2004 5:34 utc | 109
To sleep, perchance to dream
Ah, there’s the rub.
Take care NEMO.
Off for a long Nappy now.
Posted by: Harold | Aug 3 2004 5:39 utc | 110
Ashcroft Tells Libraries to Destroy Citizen-Friendly Publications
July 30, 2004
Statement from ALA President-Elect Michael Gorman:
Last week, the American Library Association learned that the Department of Justice asked the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents to instruct depository libraries to destroy five publications the Department has deemed not “appropriate for external use.” The Department of Justice has called for these five these public documents,
two of which are texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library.
The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation. The documents to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA).
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Posted by: sukabi | Aug 3 2004 6:02 utc | 111
When Johnny comes marching home again…
…Family members in bleachers screamed and waved flags as the reservists marched into a hangar. A giant American flag hung from the rafters, and a military band played patriotic songs….
America receives its finest – the 372nd Military Police Company gets a razzmatazz welcome home
Quote of the day from Captain Donald J. Reese:
“We’ve done a lot of really, really good things,”
Posted by: Nemo | Aug 3 2004 6:11 utc | 112
Would be great if there where more people with the courage of Sibel Edmonds.
Open Letter To Thomas Kean – Chairman Of The 9/11 Commission – From FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
Posted by: Fran | Aug 3 2004 6:22 utc | 113
Nemo,
did you see my post, yesterday on ‘Healh care moral’ – the one on chemtrails?
Posted by: Fran | Aug 3 2004 6:28 utc | 114
@Sassy – welcome back
@rememberinggiap – big thank you for the Chomsky interview on Counterpunch
@all – thanks for all the news hints and opinions.
Posted by: b | Aug 3 2004 7:23 utc | 115
Nemo
The wailing we hear from Iraq these days, bodes darkly for the black house on the hill. Quack surgeons, drunk on fervor and narcissism have sought to remedy an irritation with a primal flourish, a sweeping of the mighty wrist across across the table of sand. To rid the Iraq of its demon and its delusion, and in doing so, to instill unto the eyes of the world, the fearsome of our carnasial wisdom, our mastery of the ideal incarnate.
But lo, the labotomy of Iraq, has run afoul. Its blood of transfusion has has turned nefarious unto itself. It has arisen on its own particulated power, twisting loose from its restraint, in a raging stupor. A raging stupor at its unatural reassembly, alas, its parts no longer work to its sense of self. In its delirium, its dissonance of mind calls for vengence toward its maker and its collaborator. To throw off its contaminated self, to rid itself of its newly formed being it does not recognize, it will lash itself to death so it may be reborn anew of itself.
Posted by: anna mist | Aug 3 2004 9:02 utc | 116