As long as religion is the dominant force in the lives of the middle east there will be cruelty. I equate religion with a form of mental illness and extreme religiosity is extreme mental illness. Might may not make right but without Russia,China, USA and UK working together for peace there will not be peace and the cruelties will facilitate from side to side and faction to faction.
Thanks to Juan Cole for much info that is hard to find with anything close to his "objectivity".
This seems to be a great development and hopefully it will draw in the US media so that more people can get some info on how this 1947 mandate has played out.
I'm not pro or anti either group as I know that many of them and most US citizens just want a fair and equitable settlement.
It is hard to study this and not see the USA and Israel as totally wrong for the last few decades!
The term "enemy combatant" is a creation of the same Bush legal team that said torture was OK...it is pure semantics used to justify crimes...if I killed someone to put them out of their mercy I would still be a crimanal killer!
Another sad day in the slide to someplace less honorable than where we were after Bush.
If the Democratic party does not condemn King's hearings they are not real supporters of civil liberties and are becoming more like the blue team of the plutocratic party!
Most people who read your blog agree and understand the clear difference and know of the distortion corporate media is continuing by emphasis on things that benefit corporate dominance.
What you don't mention is the neded to take "personhood" away from these bastards and to push for publicly financed elections....if we (the Democratic left) keep doing what we have been doing then we will keep getting what we have gotten!
I am anti-Zionist and I think Israel is creating the conditions for ANTI-SEMITISM. As the USA has learned,blowback doesn't end easily...may never end.
As long as religion is the dominant force in the lives of the middle east there will be cruelty. I equate religion with a form of mental illness and extreme religiosity is extreme mental illness. Might may not make right but without Russia,China, USA and UK working together for peace there will not be peace and the cruelties will facilitate from side to side and faction to faction.
Thanks to Juan Cole for much info that is hard to find with anything close to his "objectivity".
Thanks to Juan Cole for devoting his talents and energiers to informing us!
This seems to be a great development and hopefully it will draw in the US media so that more people can get some info on how this 1947 mandate has played out.
I'm not pro or anti either group as I know that many of them and most US citizens just want a fair and equitable settlement.
It is hard to study this and not see the USA and Israel as totally wrong for the last few decades!
NOT 'more or less"!
According to my reading of the facts presented...he(Bradley Manning) was tortured....PERIOD!
The term "enemy combatant" is a creation of the same Bush legal team that said torture was OK...it is pure semantics used to justify crimes...if I killed someone to put them out of their mercy I would still be a crimanal killer!
Another sad day in the slide to someplace less honorable than where we were after Bush.
I love it when you get all USA...you express my views very well...thanks.
If the Democratic party does not condemn King's hearings they are not real supporters of civil liberties and are becoming more like the blue team of the plutocratic party!
Most people who read your blog agree and understand the clear difference and know of the distortion corporate media is continuing by emphasis on things that benefit corporate dominance.
What you don't mention is the neded to take "personhood" away from these bastards and to push for publicly financed elections....if we (the Democratic left) keep doing what we have been doing then we will keep getting what we have gotten!