Tagged as: bush
on the torture memos…
It is not simply the specter of Abu Ghraib that the Bush Justice Department memos evoke, but the specter of Nuremberg. This is not to say that the brutality sanctioned by the Bush Justice Department was equivalent to that of the Nazis, but it is to say that the Nuremberg precedent of holding government officials responsible for the human rights violations of their subordinates applies here.
bush admin sold out public safety in order to ban online gambling… unbelievable
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Bush administration struck a secret deal with the European Union that could open up a door for foreign ownership of liquefied natural gas terminals and other dangerous chemical and energy facilities. The agreement could also create conditions in which federal, state and local regulations affecting those facilities could be challenged as barriers to international trade.
Details of the negotiations came to light after a Freedom of Information Act request by Michigan Messenger was denied by the Bush administration on grounds that the deal was “classified in the interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958.”
Michigan Messenger’s inquiry has lasted more than a year and involved a federal lawsuit seeking disclosure of the agreement. As a federal judge was considering the merits of the case, USTR declassified the document the week before last November’s elections. Trade law experts from Global Trade Watch, a division of the government watchdog group Public Citizen, assisted Michigan Messenger in the analysis of the agreement and in the federal lawsuit.
“It was important to get this document because it shows that the Bush administration was using the [World Trade Organization] process to sell out U.S. public safety and give foreign firms new rights and privileges here even as state authorities were trying to regulate these dangerous LNG facilities,” said Lori Wallach, a trade attorney and director of Global Trade Watch. “Now the public and state officials have the information to stop this proposal from becoming a new binding U.S. WTO commitment.”
read further: Secret trade pact between U.S., Europe could void local laws on chemical, gas storage
un-fucking-believable.
don’t miss your chance!
say “farewell to george w bush”...
(i’m waiting for my message to be approved, but basically, my comment was that it was with pleasure that i looked back over the past 8 years and knew that the legacy he held so dear had amounted to nothing positive. that it must be absolutely crushing to realize he had a moment to unite the world and he frittered it away by promoting a failed ideology. and that i hope he gets everything he rightly deserves. 
bush will say farewell to the nation tonite and i can only hope that his speech writers take a second look at what he plans to say, so that he doesn’t make the type of idiotic statements that he made today (yeah, yeah, i know, LOL):
In Africa, we helped resolve old conflicts and form new partnerships to confront hunger and disease and poverty. I’m often asked, you know, how come you, from Texas, care about Africa? And I remind people—I’m reminded of one of my first conversations with Condi. And she said, if I’m going to work with you, I want you to make sure you focus on Africa. She gets a lot of credit for the focus on Africa.
so, in essence, being from texas, he only cares about africa because condi told him to. O.O
and…
In the Middle East, we stood with dissidents and young democracies. Sometimes that was not easy to do. But we stood strong with those young democracies. We outlined a vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.
because as we can see THAT’S working out really well.
don’t miss these documentaries
torturing democracy is available at http://torturingdemocracy.org/
taxi to the dark side - the latest prize-winning documentary from Oscar-nominee Alex Gibney, confirms his standing as one of the foremost non-fiction filmmakers working today. A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civilian was apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately murdered by the greatest democracy on earth. Intermingling documents and records of the incident with candid testimony from eyewitnesses and participants, the film uncovers an inescapable link between the tragic incidents that unfolded in Bagram and the policies made at the very highest level of the United States government in Washington, D.C. Combining the cool detachment of a forensic expert with the heated indignation of a proud American who holds his country to a high standard, Gibney’s film reveals how the Bush administration has systematically betrayed the very ideals it professes to uphold.
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