Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
On The Death of Bin Laden by John Tully Now I lay me down to sleep while people cheer in the streets like creeps Of course I love and respect our troops but wonder why they get treated like poop Having to buy body armor-on their fifth deployment, while people fetishize them- a video game […]
More26 January 2011 DAVID E. COOMBS Despite the assertion of Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell, PFC Bradley Manning is not being treated like every other detainee at the Quantico brig. Morrell stated during today’s Pentagon briefing that PFC Manning’s “confinement is not in the least different from the manner in which anyone else at the […]
MoreIn this week’s New Yorker, Peter Maass — who was in Iraq covering the war at the time — examines the iconic, manufactured toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, an event the American media relentlessly exploited in April, 2003, to propagandize citizens into believing that Iraqis were gleeful over the U.S. invasion and […]
MoreIt’s hard to write about Bradley Manning. I’ve composed more than one lengthy, impassioned post about Manning, and deleted it; we’ve heard things about or from Manning that we weren’t supposed to hear, and we’ve heard lots of things about Manning that may or may not be the truth, and addressing those things publicly — […]
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