"So, where is the Facebook page of the Palestini9an girl shot in the back? Or the Palestinian children who sat in a circle around their dead parents for three days during the Gaza siege?

Where is the Facebook page of a child of Pol Pot's regime? Or a Facebook page of a teenager sent to the Russian Gulag?"

Excellent idea.

Why don't you help create one?

Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

of "proper" government behavior, you have only to look north, to Canada. The Steven Harper government has become almost as right wing as the Bush government.

Now, in response to a whistleblower "claiming" that the Canadian government and military allowed people to be tortured, the Harper government is threatening the whistleblower's career, smearing him in the press, and refusing all calls for an investigation.

I first found out about such things reading Harlan Ellison's The Glass Teat. In the 70s.

""nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded"; that "the nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave"; "

This applies as much to America's hatred towards Iran/Iraq/Afghanistan as it does to America's love for Israel.

America today.

Sends its citizens into mortal danger in foreign lands

and justifies their sacrifice by imposing authoritarianism

to keep its citizens safe.

" It's simply inconceivable that any establishment journalist or national politician would ever echo Levy's scathing indictments of Israel's conduct and his calls for the U.S. to apply serious pressure and even threats to coerce changes in Israeli behavior."

America does influence Israel's conduct and apply pressure.

Just not the way you'd wish.

AIPAC's unconditional support and defence of Israel activities have kept Netanyahu and his extremists in power for years. It is America's military clout that has made Israel's applications of force successful, and prevented a Middle Eastern alliance from wiping them off the map. This successful policy has been the cornerstone of the Israeli Right's campaigns, ensuring an ongoing right wing dominance of national politics that Newt Gingrich can only dream of.

I suspect that were we to get to the heart of it, AIPAC and it's corporate sponsors would be found to be not supporting Israel's citizens or best interests, but their own agenda. An agenda that has very little to do with the bests interests of the common people of America or srael.

Funny thing about dictatorships - the dictator rarely uses his most abusive powers against the peasants; he reserves them for his political rivals and distractors.

I wonder if Glen Beck and the boys at Fox News have realized that Obama is now legally capable of sending them off to Afghani prisons on the charge of terrorism?

In other words, if only our women acted like the Ay-rabs' women, and obeyed Islamic laws, there would be no rape.

That girl's rape is America's fault. If only we'd adopted Sharia!

An honest assessment by an honest man, attempting to end an unneeded war.

Undone by one unfortunate fact.

As Glenn and so many others have pointed out, Americans are not in Afghanistan to overcome enemies or protect America. Americans are there because the government stalwarts want a war - for political, economic, religious, and ridiculous reasons.

" At some point, these examples -- and those who point them out -- will pile up so high that it will be impossible for all but the blindest Obama loyalists to pretend they don't exist."

So what happens if the blind form the majority?

The irony is that the media wouldn't have dared speak out if the Obama White House were as anti-media as the Bush White House. They would have remained silent out of fear.

Ironically enough, decriminalizing opiates would probably be a major victory in The War On Terror, as it would deprive the Taliban of major funding.

The problem with standing up to Big Pharma is that it will spook the rest of Big Business, who would come to see Obama as being anti-Establishment. He cannot just brush off Big Pharma - he has to take on the whole America-ruling cartel.

I wonder if it has anything to do with Alaska seceeding from the Union?

Has anybody thought about going into a few of Scott's clinics and looking for unattractive employees?

So when has The Right ever cared about facts and arguments?

They have emotion and buzzwords on their side.

Usually, in cases like this, there is some form of tit for tat involved.

The next article should, I hope, lay out the money trail between these people.

Once upon a time, the major argument against home schooling was that you could not teach science without labs - which homes did not have.

(Nowadays schools don't have labs, either, but that's beside the point)

Today, the argument against home schooling is that it destroys community and credentials. Two kids schooled in two different households will have studied two different curriculums. A grade 12 diploma would be worthless - it could mean anything.

This problem is manageable with standardized tests and college admission exams. The biggest problem is that of community. Home schooled children have no common bond with other children - no common experiences, no culture other than mass media and video games. They will grow up knowing, believing, and embracing different facts from the kids next door.

Wars start over such things.

Who cares about Today?

As more and more people turn to the Internet for their information, TV news bewcomes less and less relevant.

I'd be more concerned if Salon hired Jenna Bush.

Forget NBC. Target Politico.

Considering how difficult it is to get information from the government because "revealing details about our efforts might compromise our intelligence gathering ability", it seems very casual of The Post to simply "out" this terrorist asset just for a story, don't you think?