Announcement
- After years of professional starvation as a 'working musician', DC found his way to Taiwan where he has lived and taught English as a foreign language for 18 years - fourteen of them married blissfully to Yashan 'Linda' Huang.
My blog
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Torturing Democracy
Friday, Jun 12, 2009 10:23AM / Standard Entry
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The Question of Torture
Monday, May 4, 2009 9:51PM / Standard Entry
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Rice, Ashcroft Approved Torture in July 2002
Thursday, Apr 23, 2009 10:50PM / Standard Entry
More details have been revealed on high-level Bush administration involvement in authorizing torture. According to a timeline in the newly declassified Senate Intelligence Committee report, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General John Ashcroft and other top White House officials approved torture methods, including waterboarding, as early as 2002. Attorney General Eric Holder has described waterboarding as illegal, while President Obama now says he won’t rule out prosecuting top Bush officials who approved illegal acts. Rice’s backing came in July 2002, when she gave a green light for the interrogation of suspected al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah. One year later, the list of officials voicing approval grew to Vice President Dick Cheney, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and National Security Council legal adviser John Bellinger.
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Torture Memos Released
Saturday, Apr 18, 2009 11:49PM / Standard Entry
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Rethinking Afghanistan - part one
Saturday, Apr 18, 2009 11:04PM / Standard Entry
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/troop_trailer.php
This is the first of three installments of a very good film by Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Foundation. This documentary focuses on the financial burden of the undeclared and illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the rampant criminal war profiteering.I It side-steps the cost in civilian lives, the destruction of societies and immorality and wickedness of these barbarous conflicts.
