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publicaddress commented on the diary post How Long Must We Trust Generals on Afghanistan? by masaccio.
Are “mission creep” and “no mission” equivalent? It seems like the war has become nothing more than a digitized military weapon staging area where soldiers play shooter video games with live ammo and real people. It sickens me to hear Obama denouncing the loss of innocent civilians in the recent massacre while he as President [...]
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publicaddress commented on the blog post How WikiLeaks Books Came to Be Liberated & No Longer Categorized Under ‘Extremist Websites’
The answer to why Melbourne University Press printed the “Extremist Websites” designation is a simple one. It’s standard bibliographical practice for publishers to exactly copy the cataloguing information as it is provided by the national library in charge of cataloguing books, in this case the National Library of Australia. The publisher is obliged to parrot the cataloguing info precisely in order to conform to the cataloguing system and search functions. I’m sure the publisher gave do consideration to the characterization provoked by that categorization. The root problem lies with the NLA cataloguing.
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publicaddress commented on the blog post Truth finally puts on its dockers, few notice
Curveball’s lies certainly contributed to “hundreds of thousands of deaths,” but they were not the cause. Let’s be honest, ALL the “intelligence” was just window dressing for Bush and Blair administrations, who were hellbent on attacking Iraq no matter what the publicly stated reasons.
Sadly, Obama and Gates choose to continue the resulting fiasco.
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publicaddress commented on the diary post Police Brutality Alive and Well in Houston: Teen Battered [Video] by Rayne.
The FDL report failed to mention that the local governmental whitewash of this incident resulted in the lowest level misdemeanor charge available to prosecutors: official oppression (as opposed to assault). Even though the damning tape was part of the evidence that inspired these minimal charges. It’s not just the officers on the street who are [...]
