Category Archives: Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind

This is what I call a hearing

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Generals Petraeus and Odierno were confirmed, but so was something else:…the spirit of brave women speaking out for peace. They got THEIR hearing, too.

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From the color-me-SO-not-surprised files, a little something on the kind of people who are eligible not only for hiring, but RE-hiring by Kellogg, Brown & Root… In 2006, while working in Iraq for the U.S. military contractor now known as … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Gary Kamiya on what to do about terrorism

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“The only effective way to reduce the threat of terrorism is to work to end the conditions that give rise to it. In the case of Islamist terrorism, this means a comprehensive and enlightened political, economic and diplomatic strategy for … Continue reading →

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This is her baby

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Auntie Condi’s double-talk just jumped up to bite her. Now, when will it do the same for Dubya and the Big Dick?

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Never gonna give WHAT up?

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Rick Astley probably never thought his song would become so useful, but it’s the perfect illustration of why John “Insane” McCain should never become president of the US of A.

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Five Years Too Many

Posted on April 6, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Veterans For Peace staged a brilliant bit of civil disobedience in Washington on the 5th anniversary of IraqAttaq. The vets marched, delivered a citizens’ arrest warrant for Dubya, the Big Dick and Auntie Condi and unfurled a large replica of … Continue reading →

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Noam Chomsky states the obvious

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Obvious to you, me, and Noam Chomsky, obviously. But to the hawkish disaster-capitalist types, maybe not so:“Aggressors have no rights. Responsibilities, maybe, but no rights.”I wonder what PNAC, BushCo, Halliburton, etc. will all do when they find out that they … Continue reading →

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Headline Howler: Dueling Republicans

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Cue up the banjo music. Here comes some inadvertent hilarity from a party that once marched to war on Iraq in lockstep. First, Sen. Lindsey Graham, on Face the Nation, claiming a “breakthrough in Baghdad” thanks to Dubya’s “surge”:

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Lynndie England’s Nurnberg Defence

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

I see that somebody has the same sense of unaccountability as her Commander in Thief does. Lynndie England, the public face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, told a German news magazine that she was sorry for appearing in photographs … Continue reading →

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The rich are about to get poorer…

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Well, some of them are. Carlyle Capital shook financial markets last week after missing margin calls from banks on its $21.7 billion portfolio of residential mortgage-backed bonds. It said some $5 billion in securities held as collateral may have already … Continue reading →

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