Published at 19:36 on 26 February 2013
Remember back when the Establishment media were waxing triumphant over the defeat of the Tamil Tigers? I was skeptical that it would result in any improvement of human rights in Sri Lanka, given the past record of the racist government there.
Well, it looks like I was right on the money. In case that Reuters article disappears, here’s the report from Human Rights Watch that it cites.
Published at 07:47 on 5 February 2013
So, it’s OK to kill Americans extrajudicially overseas, not because of any specific evidence they are planning to launch attacks, but simply because they are part of an organization which is “continually” planning attacks. (Which is not to imply that extrajudicial executions of anyone are ever morally justifiable, just pointing out the ever-slipping standards.)
Well all righty now.
By the way, just when is the President planning his next overseas trip, anyhow?
Update: full document here.
Published at 19:42 on 9 December 2012
It turns out that in the 1980s, when stalinist East Germany was running into increasing economic problems, and when capitalist pharmaceutical companies were running into increasing difficulty finding willing human guinea pigs to experiment on, a deal was cut.