March 31, 2011
What's in a name, right? Terrorists, insurgents, rabble-rousers, freedom fighters…..how about let's call them…rebels. Yeah, that's it. And so it was in the Village. Americans have not one clue who these Libyan "rebels" are, what they stand for, what they will do if Qaddafi is overthrown, how they regard the U.S. and the West, how [...]
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March 14, 2011
In December of last year I wrote about the torturing of U.S. Army private Bradley Manning. Held at that point for 7 months without a trial for allegedly stealing and leaking classified information, Manning had fallen victim to the "everything has changed since 9-11" American paradigm. Today, Manning is still being tortured just as he [...]
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