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British torture memos

The above link discusses damning evidence for Bush administration's policy of torture. Although known by many, the Uzbekistan situation is now unequivocally linked to Bush, Cheney and Blair. This link may be too graphic for many. I have no words for this incomprehensible cruelty. All I can say is impeach, arrest, and transport to Hague for trail.

Additionally, the proof that Bush et al have ties to one of the most repressive, criminal regimes in the world disproves the libertarian, liberal and conservative argument that Hussein had to be overthrown because of his crimes. Being close allies with and participating in crimes against humanity with Uzbekistan demonstrates without question that any human rights statements by Bush are by definition hypocrisy.

Interesting Card

Venezuela's Path

Racism, Free Speech, and the College Campus

Most outrageous statements of 2005

The voices of reaction. In action.

What White America Doesn't Hear

In Memory

They murdered a peacemaker
Capital punishment and the injustice system

Iraq and the Laws of War

National Security Archive: Return of the Fallen

Cheap Venezuelan Oil Will be Heating up a few Tenements in the Bronx

U.S. oil corporations were quick to gouge consumers after the disastrous aftermath of Katrina. Free markets at their best--the plutocracy profited once more. The other approach is to use resources in common for the benefit of all. Hugo Chavez's program to benefit the poor in select U.S. cities is already making an impact, and provide a way for the U.S. working class to see the other way in action. This quote is great:

“To those who say this is to score political points,” Representative Jose E. Serrano (D-N.Y.) told a shivering crowd when the first oil arrived, “I invite any American corporation that wants to score points with my community to start this afternoon.”

Guns for Hire

Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq

Cowboy Imagery and the American Presidency

This is so well written.

Free Software as a Social Movement

John D. Dingell's Answer to HR579

Our Torture Problem

Bush and the Constitution

Freedom IS on the March!

The embodiment of buffoonery inhabiting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is well known for repetitively spouting off "catch" phrases. Carefully designed by handlers knowing his ability to pronounce only the most rudimentary vocabulary, combined with his limited understanding of even the simplest political issues, these phrases provide the executive with an escape valve when and wherever asked questions. Witness his initial campaign in which he was pressed on views on the pending court decision against the grossest violator of anti-trust laws in history he would parrot "I prefer innovation to litigation," a phrase indicating he would absolve the Redmond based firm if propped into power. Another favorite whenever asked during the 2004 debates on anything about the one sided class warfare his administration has waged since day one from minimum wage reform to job losses to offshore sites was "no child left behind."

There is however, one catch phrase the executive has repeated ad nauseam that actually has a kernel of truth to it. "Freedom is on the march," which he has used extensively in reference to the neo-colonial projects in Afghanistan, Iraq and other unfortunate lands. Tragic-comic examples of what they consider freedom are constantly presented in the compliant reactionary corporate media. "Afghan women freed from their burkas" goes one story, completely ignoring that the average woman in that region now stands a much greater chance of being assaulted, raped, or killed than before their so called liberation. "Iraqis vote for democracy" goes another, ignoring completely the wholesale murder, destruction, and widespread misery the illegal occupation has and still creates every day.

No, freedom isn't on the march in any of the places the Empire has chosen to visit its broad military and economic might upon. Instead it is on the march because the current attempts to subjugate the Near East have seriously limited the U.S. ruling class' ability to maintain its stranglehold on long time "Washington Consensus" victims. Yes freedom is on the march, on the march in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. On the march because ordinary people, working class people, have had enough of the cruel and inhuman consequences of neo-liberal policies. On the march because they have stood against neo-liberalism and have seen major victories against it. On the march because they have experienced their power through struggle and have developed necessary class consciousness.