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POPSIt’s Even Worse Than We Thought It’s Even Worse Than We Thought When I first started blogging at dailykos nearly two years ago, I took a lot of grief (and I mean a lot of grief) for some of my assertions (not that there weren’t plenty of others making them), such as: One Pissed Off Liberal's diary
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POPSSenate Bill 1959 Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech Across America the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent
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POPSEuropeans Mull Sanctions Against Iran Europeans Mull Sanctions Against Iran. Britain and France are leading a push for new EU sanctions to punish Iran over its nuclear program. But while European nations increasingly fear a war in their backyard, the continent is divided over how to deal with the crisis. The United States raised the stakes this week with new sanctions targeting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which Washington accuses of supporting terrorism by backing Shiite militants in Iraq. The announcement raised the question of whether the European Union would follow suit. But few other European nations clamoring to support stepped-up EU sanctions. The divisions mirror those that split the continent over Iraq, though the fault lines have shifted.
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POPS U.S. deserters lose bid for Canada refugee status U.S. deserters lose bid for Canada refugee status. The Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear appeals from the two men, Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, over decisions by immigration authorities -- backed in two subsequent court rulings -- that they were not refugees in need of protection. Opposing the war on the belief that it was illegal and immoral, the two deserted when they learned their units would be deployed to Iraq, and came to Canada. If deported to the United States, they say they face a court martial and up to five years in prison.
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POPSKansas church liable in Marine funeral protest the Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, and three of its principals invaded the privacy of the dead man's family and inflicted emotional distress. An anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq after church members cheered his death at his funeral. The lawsuit said church Web sites vilified U.S. soldiers, accusing them of being indoctrinated by "fag propaganda."
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POPSSadr City Sadr City will be the site of Iraqi contracts with Iran and China that concern U.S. In a time of possible conflict with Iran, there is fear that Iranian commercial investments can mask military activities. Word of the project worth 1.1 billion, prompted serious concerns among American military officials.
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POPSFCC Must be Stopped FCC Must be Stopped from rewriting the media ownership rules. Local outlets need more representatives in the media to tell the complete story of Iraq and it's peoples of diverse backgrounds. Controlling the media represents an influence that could exclude many people from having a voice in their own country of Iraq.
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POPSIraqi Kurdsistan will Defend Itself The leader of the Kurdistan Regional Authority in Iraq, Massoud Barzan, called Friday for talks with Turkey. The call was immediately rejected by Ankara, which accuses Barzani of deliberately harboring 3,000 to 5,000 guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers Party who have been going back over into Turkey and blowing people up or killing them (i.e. engaging in terrorism).
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