Click here to see Brad Blog's archive of Australian TV's new Abu Ghraib footage and pictures. Shame on you fools who think you can have an empire without torture and murder. This is your fault.
Sneak Preview! ; )
Here's a first look at my new article for Antiwar.com, which will run tomorrow. "The Constitution is not holy writ, but the government it describes would be a hell of a lot better than the one we have now."
Whistleblower says NSA violations bigger
UPI: WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A former NSA employee said Tuesday there is another ongoing top-secret surveillance program that might have violated millions of Americans' Constitutional rights. Russell D. Tice told the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations he has concerns about a "special access" electronic surveillance program that he characterized as far more wide-ranging than the warrentless wiretapping recently exposed by...
One Good Congressman
One. "The artificial demand for our dollar, along with our military might, places us in the unique position to "rule" the world without productive work or savings, and without limits on consumer spending or deficits. The problem is, it can
Tuesday’s KAOS Report
Shauna took the day off, so it's just me. Archives here.
Drug War Ad Absurdum
Unbelievable. A 12 year old boy is being prosecuted on felony charges for carrying a bag of sugar to school for a science project. The state's excuse:
I’m Not Alone!
I am not the only one in America who objects to every single newsperson in the land using the term "peppered" when describing how Cheney shot an old man in the face. No one else's shootings are ever called pepperings - ever. My main man, Jon Stewart, got the same impression: "Harry Whittington, seasoned to an inch of his life." Crooks and Liars video of last night's awesome Daily Show here. Here is a sample of Rob Corddry's report: "Jon, tonight the vice president is standing by his decision...
Outed CIA officer was working on Iran
Larisa Alexandrovna at Raw Story has done it again. In her newest article, she explains that Valerie Wilson/Plame was investigating Iran's nuclear dealings for her CIA front company Brewster-Jennings at the time she was outed by the White House Iraq Group, causing "significant damage" to US national security: "Speaking under strict confidentiality, intelligence officials revealed heretofore unreported elements of Plame's work. Their accounts suggest that Plame's outing was more serious than...
Nuke England!
They harbor terrorists.
Update: Manufacturing Crisis and Leviathan
Hooray! An American newspaper has finally decided to cover the plan that Bush and friends had cooked up in early 2003 to make it look like Iraq had started the war by deliberately getting a U-2 spy-plane painted in UN colors shot down, as revealed in the book "Lawless World," by British author Philippe Sands, UK Channel 4, the BBC, the London Times and, of course, Antiwar.com (9 days ago). Says the LA Times, "Bush told Blair that 'the U.S. was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with...
The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner 1869
I. The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a contract between persons living eighty years ago. And it can be supposed to have been a contract then only between persons who had already come to years of discretion, so as to be competent to make reasonable and obligatory...
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers
When he's not getting mugged or writing articles about what a bum I am, Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers sits fondly remembering his days as a snot-nosed punk rocker in LA. Please Don't Send Me to the Delousing Showers Sink the Wales I Wanna be the Feuhrer Song of Howard Hughes
US Constitution
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article I Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of...
“I’m a murderer.”
Thursday night I met a guy who, it turns out, was a soldier in town (Austin) from Ft. Hood. He was a nice chap. We chatted for a while, then when he complained about the overwhelming show of force by the local cops on their taxpayer horses, I took the opportunity - of course - to say something to the effect of, "All government does is tax, torture and murder people." Then he asked me, "See this haircut?" I nodded. He said, "That means I'm a murderer." To which I responded, not sarcastically,...
Feingold and the Law Vs. Bush and his Edicts
From Senator Feingold's speech to the US Senate: "The President
