The American Civil Liberties Union has some frightening info about who’s on the U.S. Government terror watch list, as well as a snazzy counter.
In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 [...]
All regular programming on KBOO is pre-empted from 6AM to 4PM today (Friday the 14th) in order to carry the Iraq/Afghanistan Winter Soldier hearings, currently underway.
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan will feature testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, [...]
From McClatchy today:
BAGHDAD — U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian who were taken hostage more than a year ago in Iraq, officials here said today.
The FBI is investigating the grisly development, and the families of the five kidnapped contractors have been notified, American officials said [...]
We have Ferraro implying Obama has an unfair advantage because of his skin color. But this just disgusts me and makes me ashamed to be an American:
Rep. Steve King of Iowa said Monday that he won’t apologize or back down from his prediction that terrorists will be “dancing in the streets” if Democratic [...]
[ March 19, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]
See post here for details.
photo credit: m.j.b.
February 27, 2008 – 12:55 pm
Noam Chomsky reverses a paradigm:
The more vulgar apologists for U.S. and Israeli crimes solemnly explain that, while Arabs purposely kill people, the U.S. and Israel, being democratic societies, do not intend to do so. Their killings are just accidental ones, hence not at the level of moral depravity of their adversaries. That was, for example, [...]
February 25, 2008 – 8:58 am
Since we know for sure who one of the candidates is going to be in November, here is a new ad from VoteVets.org reminding us that our priorities are seriously out of whack and this known candidate wants to keep us mired in Iraq for a very long time. It is long overdue that [...]
February 21, 2008 – 9:17 am
The Commerce Department has been forced by Judicial Watch to turn over records of spring, 2001 meetings held between Dick Cheney and execs from global oil giants, records that suggest that the group decided months before September 11th that the US energy policy would center on taking control of Iraq’s oil:
In [...]
January 30, 2008 – 10:46 am
Marjane Satrapi and her comic self portrait.
KBOO’s Words and Pictures show recently featured an interview with Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, whose autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis was just made into a feature length film.
“Satrapi became famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her [...]
January 15, 2008 – 10:26 am
It’s funny how things always seem to work out that way (with the sole exception of the Iran NIE):
The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq’s borders from external threat until [...]
January 14, 2008 – 11:44 am
It seems Dear Leader took his trip to the Middle East not so much to persuade the Israelis and Palestinians to make nice, but to ramp up his threats toward Iran.
First, we had the Tonkin on the Hormuz “they’re attacking the fleet!” bullshit. Then there was Bush’s one and only big speech over there [...]
January 13, 2008 – 10:53 pm
Senator Clinton defends her vote for the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Saddam as a vote to get the weapons inspectors back into Iraq. It will be interesting to see whether Senator Chuck Hagle (R-NE) would corroborate Clinton’s claim that he sold this as an attempt to use the threat [...]
Category Archives: 
![[PDA - Progressive Democrats of America - Stand Up. Take Action. Vote.]](http://pdamerica.org/images/ads/pdalink-150x200.gif)
