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by Shadowthief
Yes, it's unseemly to explore the political dimensions of the human tragedy that is still unfolding in the Gulf Coast states of the US.
Thousands dead. New Orleans in chaos. Biloxi devastated. One million people dispossessed. Yet you can be sure that Karl Rove's first thought was, "How can we spin this?" Here's how. Read more... (2 comments, 501 words in story) by Shadowthief
Yes, it's another Cindy Sheehan diary. I've been on holiday in Italy and returned to find that the ground has shifted underneath Bush's feet...caused by a force of nature named Cindy Sheehan. And I returned from Italy with a photograph of Michelangelo's "Pieta", a sculpture he did in his early 20s, which has significance for the strange and wonderful saga of Cindy Sheehan.
By the way--many thanks to MilitaryTracy for her reporting on the scene! Read more... (29 comments, 1027 words in story) by Shadowthief
I find it highly significant that the majority party--not the minority--stormed out of a committee that THEY control rather than debate the renwal of the Patriot Act.
Well, actually, that's not why James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, abruptly adjourned the meeting--it's because Republicans don't want to talk about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Which means that's exactly what Democrats should, and must, be talking about--America's gulags, not only in Guantanamo Bay but in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world. I sense that this is the Republicans' Achille's Heel--how can they defend what goes on there...what REALLY goes on there? I know from the reaction amongst the American public when the Abu Ghraib torture photographs came to light that the Americanp public do NOT like the fact that prisoners are being held without charge for months and years on end, that they are being abused and tortured--and even if they did (especially if they did) approve, it falls to the opposition party to take upon the burden of opposing torture and extrajudicial imprisonment. Why? Because it's inhumane. Because it's immoral. Because it's un-American. As Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York said: "We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it." More below. Read more... (23 comments, 605 words in story) |
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