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We Don’t Torture

May 13, 2009 – 11:11 pm

Barack Obama’s administration has angered opponents of torture with the refusal to release compromising photos of the military abusing prisoners. The Pentagon campaigned the White House on the grounds that these photos could endanger US Troops. They obviously involve more than waterboarding, despite the Bush regime’s longstanding claim that they never exceeded the bounds of […]

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Pakistani Cabal on Kabul

August 18, 2007 – 10:17 pm

The Bush administration has initiated a possible alliance between old Pakistani rivals to shore up the military dictatorship governing the Khyber Pass. The wicked web is being woven between old rival factions to sustain the ‘war on terror’ Bhutto and Musharraf.

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Billion Bullets

August 18, 2007 – 10:17 pm

I’ve only fired a gun once in anger and I’m not even sure whether that was really the case. The year was 1979. Hurrah was a punk rock disco in Manhattan. Blondie was playing upstairs. I was watching the band. The barman said there was trouble at the door. I thought maybe someone didn’t want […]

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