According to Josh Marshall, the man who thinks I’m Satan is in charge of interrogations in Iraq. If you had Satan in your custody, what would you do to him? Abu Ghuraib is his answer.
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Suck on This!
Thomas Friedman asks where are the Pakistani protests are about Mumbai. Fair enough question. If only he would look. This is the English language stuff. I’m trying to figure out how to post the Urdu language material, you know, the actual language of most Pakistanis. —– Information about vigils: DEC 4: Karachi, London, & Boston, Worcester (MA) & Providence, RI DEC 6: San Fransisco Already held: Dec 2, UPenn Forthcoming: Dec 4 (TODAY): – KARACHI: 5.00 pm, Karachi Press Club, Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) & Peace Karachi, candle lit vigil for Peace against carnage in…
Independence Day
Happy 4th of July! 228 years old. Obligatory reading today are both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the US. There’s also a great op-ed in today’s New York Times talking about the relevance of the Constitution to today’s America. Current favorite president: FDR. Read something about his vision of America. Always remember Lincoln and what he had to say. Of course, now we are talking about a new type of slavery, a mental one. Where is our Thomas Paine?