With all the talk of Congress giving the Treasury a blank check to bail out Wall Street, I’ve been harkening back to that other blank check: the one Congress gave Bush to invade Iraq; the one that’s currently costing us $341.4 million per day. Turns out, I’m not the only one drawing this parallel. Check [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘neo fascism’
June 10, 2008
Remember that neo-fascism thing?
Go check out these two pieces:
From the AP: Lawyer: Gitmo interrogators told to trash notes
From Alternet.org: Pentagon Manual: OK to Destroy Gitmo Interrogation Notes
The first is AP’s factual reporting of the situation. The second is Alternet’s discussion of the implications, including some excerpts of reporting on the same story from CanWest News Service.
Essentially, there was [...]
June 8, 2008
Neo Fascism and the United States
I have to thank Squirmelicious this morning for jogging my brain to post on this. Head over to his blog, which you should always be reading, by the way, to check out his very disturbing recap of Privacy International’s annual report on privacy and surveillance around the globe. The US gets an abysmal rating, at [...]
