Jan 26
Orwellian-style agitprop; this best describes the latest article written by James Joyner for The Atlantic on the Haditha massacre, which refers to the event in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines in 2005 in the city of Haditha, in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar. Read more
The following is a post dedicated to my native Lebanon, more specifically Southern Lebanon; all photographs were taken this December-January.
Footage of US Marines urinating on the corpses of Afghans has gone viral; the White House has condemned the actions displaying in the video, which shows four US Marines desecrating the bodies of Afghan men, lifelessly sprawled out on the ground – there are no apparent weapons belonging to the deceased men in plain sight yet due to the ‘good soldier’ vs. ‘bad foreigner’ narrative propagated by the mainstream media, in which US armed forces are always portrayed as being the good soldiers, the story-line is that the Afghans being urinated on were “Taliban.”
Despite this assumption, the barbarity is evident for all those who wish to see – for those who are willing to remove their nationalist blinders. Read more
Inspired by the brilliant Shit Liberals Say To Radicals, I have created a listed of Shit Liberals Say, and filed them according to topic:
Without having being charged nor having committed a crime – and even after the authorities admitted that they had “made a mistake”, he was told that he would still have to go to Guantánamo Bay for a duration or he would have to lie and claim having a link with Osama Bin Laden, so that the authorities would in turn be able to save face.
‘I spent one year Bagram Air Base, then I was transferred to Guantánamo Bay; I was not allowed to sleep. I was not allowed to use the bathroom.
For six months they kept me in a refrigerator naked. It’s hard to explain. After spending 6 months in a refrigerator I have lost my hearing. The way I was treated…animals are not even treated this way…’
Watch The Interview: Former Guantanamo Detainee Speaks
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