Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
MyDD :: John Hinderaker unhingedJerome Armstrong wrote: John Hinderaker, who writes for Time magazine’s “Blog of the Year”, dived into calling Jimmy Carter treasonous (“Jimmy Carter isn’t just misguided or ill-informed. He’s on the other side.”) This week, Hinderaker has become unhinged: You dumb shit, he didn’t get access using a fake name, he used […]
MoreUnclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: The ongoing national disgrace of lawless indefinite detentions I’ve honestly run out of adjectives to use when discussing the Bush administration’s treatment of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla. Last month, I wrote about the torture — there is no other accurate word for it — to which Padilla alleges, quite […]
MoreNew Taliban rules target Afghan teachers – Yahoo! News: KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating, and if they continue to teach must be killed. The new list of 30 rules, decided on during a […]
MoreCrooks and Liars » This is absolutely ridiculous. Flynt Leverett — former CIA analyst, NSC member and established foreign policy expert — has written an op-ed for the NYT bashing the Bush admin. for it’s failed policies towards Iran. The WH, in typical ruthless and authoritarian form, has pressured the CIA to heavily redact his […]
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