Posted by
matttbastard on Dec 20, 2008 in
Rule of Law |
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In a must-read post today, Glenn Greenwald challenges Ruth Marcus and the establishment Washington consensus, in which the pursuit of war crimes charges against soon-to-be-former Bush officials is arbitrarily dismissed as either too polarizing, too partisan, or just too goddamn difficult to successfully...
After surveying some of the right-wing opposition to the $700 billion Paulson bail-out (and acidly noting that such sentiments from these quarters are unfortunately “vital for having any meaningful chance to stop [the Paulson plan]” thanks to the sorry record during the Bush years of craven Democrats in...
While everyone (including yours truly) was busy arguing the political and ethical implications of a pregnant 17 year old, the bloody fucking fascists of the St Paul Police Department arrested Amy Goodman while she was covering today’s RNC protests. Yeah, that Amy Goodman: Glenn Greenwald reports that...
Posted by
commcom on Apr 6, 2008 in
Politics |
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Glenn should channel this inner sarcasm more often… Absolutely. That’s an excellent and very accurate description of what the current spying controversy is about — whether we should “eavesdrop on the phone calls of suspected terrorists.” Mukasey and the government think we...
Posted by
Kyle E. Moore on Mar 12, 2008 in Uncategorized |
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House Democrats earned for themselves some rare praise from Glenn Greenwald, someone whose obstinance I share when it comes to holding firm on retroactive immunity for telecoms and warrantless wiretapping in general. As many of my readers know, I am one who firmly believes that one must pick and choose...