This is how the Bush administration hypes the terror “threat”:
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The hell continues
This is the real Iraq: What the U.S. has been calling the success of a “surge”, many Iraqis see as evidence of catastrophe. Where U.S. forces point to peace and calm, local Iraqis find an eerie silence.… And when U.S. forces speak of a reduction in violence, many Iraqis simply do not know what they…
Fidel’s contradictions
Tony Karon, Rootless Cosmopolitan, February 20: There’s been predictably little interesting discussion in the United States of Fidel Castro’s retirement as Cuba’s commandante en jefe, maximo etc. That’s because in the U.S. political mainstream, Cuba policy has for a generation been grotesquely disfigured by a collective kow-towing — yes, collective, it was that craven Mr.…
Sex on the public purse
From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the US.
Never going home
According to Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo’s military commissions, the process has been manipulated by Administration appointees in an attempt to foreclose the possibility of acquittal. Welcome to American justice, Bush administration style.
This is what demcracy doesn’t look like
A revealing anecdote from Iraq by an American journalist who visited last year: In Mosul last March, the Provincial Reconstruction Team took me to a meeting of one of Iraq’s new terrorism tribunals. Three judges were trucked up from Baghdad to preside over Baghdad-related terrorism cases — all in Mosul, so the insurgents wouldn’t, you…
Our enemies are civilians
A Salon “exclusive“: Inside a secret high-tech control center the U.S. Air Force targets enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan. But can they bomb them legally, and without killing innocents? The fact that a growing number of civilians are being killed by America’s air-war against the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan would suggest that in fact…
The futility of his death
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, February 17: It was like an especially wild orgy: First the great intoxication of the senses, then the bitter sobering up the next morning. Within a few hours, Israel went from celebrating the assassination of Imad Mughniyah to the fear of what would follow. The “great feat of intelligence,” the “perfect execution,”…
Our man in Rawalpindi
An interview with Western-friendly, Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf. (Conducted by Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima Khan): The image he paints of himself as a benign, legitimised dictator is at odds with the recent Human Rights Watch report that accuses his regime of hundreds of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, harassment, intimidation and extrajudicial killings.