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This Week in Wikileaks (podcast transcript), 3 April 2011. Related: Download or listen to the podcast Panorama Documentary in English Greg Mitchell, One Year Later, The Nation, 20 April 2011. Collateral Murder Bradley Manning Support Network Courage to Resist We Are Not Your Soldiers

April 23, 2011 Uncategorized
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GOSZTOLA: What’s the ramification for somebody that goes ahead and decides to post and share this widely?

MCCORD: Not only are you going to have to deal with the people who you serve with calling you a traitor and a piece of crap and everything else you know, you’re going to have to go through court-martials cause they can say that anything is classified. But, let’s take a look at this WikiLeaks video for just one second here. The video was released on April 5th of 2010. However, the entire incident was written about in a book by David Finkel called The Good Soldiers. So, they’re stating that this was classified, but it was already released back in 2009 through a book so how is it classified if it’s already for released? I mean, word for word this video is described in the book The Good Soldiers so yet we’re going to charge Bradley Manning for releasing classified information. Shouldn’t we also be charging David Finkel for writing this book detailing the entire engagement in his book in 2009? I think that this incident was unclassified as soon as it was written about and put in this book in 2009.

http://blip.tv/play/gdElgrPCNwI Nancy Goldstein, “Losing Sleep Over Bradley Manning.”

April 21, 2011 Uncategorized
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Nancy Goldstein, “Losing Sleep Over Bradley Manning.”

Tom Engelhardt, from “Sleepwalking into the imperial dark,” TomDispatch,19 April 2011.  

April 21, 2011 Uncategorized
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Facing the challenges of a world at the edge — from Japan to the Greater Middle East, from a shaky global economic system to weather that has become anything but entertainment — the United States looks increasingly incapable of coping. It no longer invests in its young, or plans effectively for the future, or sets off on new paths. It literally can’t do. And this is not just a domestic crisis, but part of imperial decline.

… in a universe where all the lines are straight. Thankfully there are many curved, twisted an

April 18, 2011 Uncategorized
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… in a universe where all the lines are straight. Thankfully there are many curved, twisted an

Jeanne Theoharis, “My Student, the ‘Terrorist’,” The Chronice of Higher Education Review, 3 April, 2011. More Information: Jeff Kaye, Sentenced to Hell, FireDogLake, 17 April, 2011. The Case of Syed Hashmi, Educators for Civil Liberties. Bill Quigley, Not Just Guantanomo, Huffington Post, 3 April, 2011.

April 18, 2011 Uncategorized
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The use of torture and other human-rights violations in America’s war on terrorism has been framed as a problem occurring largely outside our shores. Our public conversation blames a set of bad guys—the “torture lawyers” John Yoo and Jay Bybee and their patrons, President Bush and Vice President Cheney—who twisted the law to allow “enhanced interrogation” in secret and offshore locations.

But enhanced-interrogation techniques are only one facet of the human-rights devolution in the aftermath of September 11. In a campaign against terrorism that requires evidence of the effectiveness of law enforcement, a record of conviction is paramount. Prosecuting alleged terrorists has significant cachet for politically aspiring U.S. attorneys, not to mention financial imperatives as various government agencies compete for money made available to fight terrorism. Under the cover of law, U.S. attorneys use prolonged solitary confinement and sensory deprivation to help produce convictions. As John McCain, a former POW, wrote, such treatment “crushes the spirit.”

I am not much of a girly girl, but I so want this bike and all of it’s accessories. This, for

April 15, 2011 Uncategorized
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I am not much of a girly girl, but I so want this bike and all of it’s accessories.

Kate Spade NY Bay Bike Bag

This, for instance, is the bag that goes on the back of the bike. It’s only #375.00, but come on. It goes with the bike.

Kate Spade NY Scout Bike Bag

And then there’s this bag, which you can attach to the front, called a Scout Bag because, I dunno, I guess you put your scouting gear in it — your maps, your compass, your GPS receiver and whatnot. It’s only $425. It looks like you could run away from home and pack everything you need in it.

The bike itself, which is a zero-power model painted in a green that announces to anyone within sight of you that you paid a stupid amount of money to be conspicuously hip and fabulous. And, that your style will last until you die as well. It’s a cool $1100 even, but I still want it. Because somethings are just irrational. So I blog about them, and then go ride my calmer green, cheaper, more athletic, with wider tires, but still incredibly stylish and tasteful Trek Alliant commuter bike. 

Trek Alliant WSD

D.H. Lawrence (via wordpainting)

April 14, 2011 Uncategorized
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Our civilization cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness. It is our developing and extending consciousness that he threatens—and our consciousness is its newest, most sensitive activity, its vital growth. To arrest or circumscribe the vital consciousness is to produce morons, and nothing but a moron would do it.

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