Angry White Kid on KPFA/Pacifica troubles.
I was just reading a comment about “liberals” who were glad that the Supreme Court had overturned med-pot laws, because otherwise they might have undermined the broad intepretation of the Commerce Clause that the “progressive” regulatory state depends on. Well, I hope the Devil is stoking the coals to make an especially hot place in Hell for them. They’d rather live under fascism than risk losing control of the welfare-regulatory state. They’re like the Communists in Madrid, who preferred losing to Franco over sharing a victory with anarchists. Shit, if Bush proposed suspension of habeas corpus and slave labor detention camps for “subversives,” people like Reid would probably just demand that the guards have civil service protection and be unionized under AFGE locals.
Justin Raimondo and Nebojsa Malic on a possible Balkans Connection to the London bombings. Malic again on Srebrenica.
Srebrenica Muslims Remembered, The Rest Silenced
July 11, 2005
By Jan Oberg, TFF director
On March 24 this year the international community passed over the 6th Anniversary of NATO’s bombings of Serbia and Kosovo in silence. These bombs killed more people propotionately than the terror attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. There has been no coverage of the innocents who suffered there, no silent minutes and no speeches of solidarity – neither has there for the suffering in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The bombings ended 78 days later on June 10 after which the same international community turned a blind eye to the fact that about 200,000 innocent, civilian Kosovo-Serbs and Romas were ethnically cleansed out of Kosovo by the province’s Western-supported Kosovo-Albanian nationalist leadership. Some of them have been the close partners of the UN, OSCE, NATO and the EU missions ever since. Virtually no Serbs or Romas have returned or been helped to return to Kosovo. Instead, pressure is put on Serbia to let them become citizens of Serbia – and then they will have no right to return to Kosovo in the future.
Regime Libertarians
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The LP should not have to be told that playing strategy games with foreign troops, shoveling out foreign aid, and bolstering lackey authoritarian regimes are incompatible with liberty.
There has been widespread outrage at the LP’s Iraq plan. State-level parties are increasingly annoyed at the ideological drift of the national party, which is located in DC and has developed a bad case of beltway brain. That’s the mentality that imagines only one kind of intellectual activism, that which regards the powerful – as versus just regular people – as the target audience of all one’s ideological work.
Rockwell nails it and it holds true for every risible “opposition” org. operating today placating the masters instead of skewering them.
Iraq: The Phony ‘Withdrawal’ by
Justin Raimondo contains quotes from Matthew Yglesias and Kevin Drum. I happened to catch the big announcement launching this campaign on the subject of permanent military bases in Iraq and I wondered what their motive could be in doing so. The Bushies peddle troop withdrawal to the masses as proof Iraq is free and the Democrats feign shock and indignation as if they didn’t enable their construction?
There’s a story in the Prospect piece that made me laugh, about a junior Heritage associate, who is asked whether he studied the British occupation of Iraq:
“Yes, I did,” the young American replied proudly. “I thought so,” said the Iraqi, “because you seem determined to repeat every one of their mistakes.”
I can only guess, after a lot of arguments with family that peddle their history from Heritage publications, that the guy believed the British occupation to have been a successful project: ‘A few rotten apples regrettably misbehaved, but on the whole GDP growth was on the rise! Just look at those exports!’ 😛