May 2013
56 posts
But the Fukushima effect does not imply a disruption of social life: poison has...
– Bifo
U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect →
The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has...
4 tags
Meanwhile, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, showing off the tough adversarial...
– That is why this is permitted to happen. via Glenn Greenwald
Assad says West will pay for backing al Qaeda in... →
President Bashar Assad accused the West on Wednesday of supporting al Qaeda militants in Syria’s civil war and warned they would turn against their backers and strike
You’ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more...
– - Obama speaking at Ohio State
Dissent is not allowed. Get back in line, citizen.
Commonplaces: DRONES →
piercepenniless:
Moral calculus of drones: the instinctive belief that war transformed by distance makes the ending of a life (or lives, and, in particular, those lives called ‘collateral’) *more* obscene. But the history of war has also been the history of technology designed to kill over greater distances,…