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Category: Issues
Posted on April 26, 2010 by Gary
...like the ones in Arizona. Because a campaign of racist scapegoating just isn't the same without a memorable tag line.

I'm torn between

Immigranten RAUS!

and

The USA: Not our brothers' keeper

What do you, the apparently non-existent readers, think?
Category: Issues
Posted on April 5, 2010 by Gary
For any out there who still think Afghanistan is the "good war," via Glenn Greenwald:

On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounded. The Pentagon then issued a statement claiming that (a) the dead were all "insurgents" or terrorists, (b) the bodies of three women had been found bound and gagged inside the home (including two pregnant women, one a mother of 10 children and the other a mother of six children, and a teenage girl), and (c) suggested that the women had already been killed by the time the U.S. had arrived, likely the victim of "honor killings" by the Taliban militants killed in the attack.

Although numerous witnesses on the scene as well as local investigators vehemently disputed the Pentagon's version, and insisted that all of the dead (including the women) were civilians and were killed by U.S. forces, the American media largely adopted the Pentagon's version, often without any questions. But enough evidence has now emerged disproving those claims such that the Pentagon was forced yesterday to admit that their original version was totally false and that it was U.S. troops who killed the women.


It's not the good war. There's no such thing.

Troops home, now.