Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Iraq, Five Years In: They Really Don’t Care (Updated, March 20) Oh, lucky you! What a privilege you’ve been given by your Emperor, who so earnestly wishes he were young enough to join you on the front lines! (Or not. I’m betting on “not.”)The setting was the National Religious Broadcasters annual […]

Thursday, March 27, 2008 Tyranny, The One-War Mirror, and the Criminal Syndicate Called the ATF Thuggin’ it incognito: An armed enforcer for one of the Regime’s official criminal gangs, the ATF, decked out in the familiar terrorist hood. Any resemblance to an anonymous hooded medieval executioner (below, left) is entirely … appropriate. In a republic, […]

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 The Dollar Falls, The Predators Awaken Not terribly long ago, it was common to hear of people “taking money out” of their homes. It was as if those houses were equipped with magic ATM consoles through which some portion of their inflated market value could be transmuted into cash.Many houses of […]

Friday, April 4, 2008 The Bush Regime’s Revolution in Legal Affairs Sure, he was rich, but he wasn’t particularly wise: Lydian King Croesus (enthroned) receives a visit from the Athenian lawgiver, Solon, in this depiction by the Dutch master Gerard von Honthorst.If audacity were wealth, John C. Yoo would be richer than Croesus. But then, […]

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 How Trials Operate in the New Torture Regime What purpose does a trial serve when it’s conducted by a state claiming the power to torture confessions from a suspect, or “evidence” from a witness?Obviously, an exercise of this kind isn’t carried out in the interest of establishing the truth beyond a […]

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 The Bipartisan Brotherhood of Plunder (Updated) “Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a vast scale? What are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms?A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided […]

Sunday, April 13, 2008 From OKC to Abu Ghraib: The Kenneth Trentadue Case Brothers in better times: Jesse Trentadue (left) poses with his younger brother Kenneth, who would later be murdered by the FBI. It is doubtful that Kenneth Trentadue really understood, as he was being tortured and beaten to death by federal agents, why […]