Posts Tagged ‘Security’

The United States is so often humiliated in the national spotlight these days.  The news of Nelson Mandela being tagged as a terrorist in America's international terrorist database is not surprising.  Even still, the government should make strides to shed this string of government failures and international gaffes that have ...

Passport file breach at the State Department,  Senator Barack Obama The question that everyone will be asking is whether this was politically motivated?  Condoleezza Rice promised a full investigation into the events that happened.  It's not the first time this has happened, either. Investigators found that one of the contract employees who ...

Saddam Hussein is reported as having "misled the world" in believing that Iraq had WMds.  Now it seems Saddam Hussein is to blame for the Iraq War and apparently he made a conscious effort to mislead the world about his non-existent WMDs. After all, it is Saddam Hussein that "led the ...

"The United States does not torture" -- George W. Bush Some may question why the President is receiving so much flack for water-boarding when our enemy is strapping dynamite around their collective waist and blowing up American soldiers. The answer is simple, first: two wrongs don't make a right. Torture and ...

the War at Home, depoliticizing "the troops"(tm) I won't play the game that the Super Patriots want to play. It's a war of rhetoric and they're playing with not just American taxpayer dollars, but they are playing with the lives of our loved ones in the military. So ...

He was a former a member of the justice department and when he spoke out and said that water-boarding is indeed torture, he was promptly fired. He was crazy enough to volunteer to be water-boarded to determine whether or not it is "torture" and when his answer didn't return the ...

Slashdot Nerd speaks out against Fascism   The comment reads like a rant, partially because it is, but it is a good note on Fascism and America.  American government has sunk to new lows and we've deluded ourselves into believing that we live in a free society.  Democracy is dead.   On American Fascism ...

the President wants immunity for American corporations that may have broken the law while "protecting Americans in the war on terror". As if it wasn't bad enough that the government is working to protect rogue groups like Blackwater from prosecution, now the government is looking to grant immunity to the ...

With every passing day, I ask myself if the U.S. leadership could sink any lower than it already has. The answer always seems to be, yes... and this makes it very difficult to appreciate "Democracy" as we still like to call it. Apparently, innocence of ...