“How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties. […] ‘I know that my peers in the Army will be mad at me for speaking out, but the fact is that we violated the laws of land warfare in Abu Ghraib. We violated the tenets of the Geneva Convention. We violated our own principles and we violated the core of our military values. The stress of combat is not an excuse, and I believe, even today, that those civilian and military leaders responsible should be held accountable.’” - full story
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On the day that Council of Europe special investigator Dick Marty reports on the CIA’s secret prisons, Paris Hilton goes back to jail again - and guess what attracts more attention? And as State of the Art reports, the photographer who shot the maybe most iconic Vietnam War photo covers (and I’m tempted to write: is reduced to covering) Paris Hilton.
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State of the Art reports on an article from the New York Times, in which it is noted that “since last year the military has enforced new embedding rules that require photographers to obtain consent from wounded soldiers before images of them can be published.” I have to say, that’s quite the ingenious way to prevent the public from seeing the consequences of George W. Bush’s disastrous Iraq war (which, lest we forget this, also is the war of all those Senators who gave Bush the authorization for it and of those Senators who just handed Bush more money for it with no strings attached). So now we’re in the absurd situation where people can’t do anything about the war (because anything other than letting the President do whatever he wants would not “support the troops”), and citizens can’t see what’s going on (because taking photos of wounded and dead soldiers would not “support the troops”). There’s a lot of stuff that I could add now, but since Al Gore has already written about it, let me just recommend The Assault on Reason. Do yourselves a favour (if you live in the US, that is; I don’t think it’s out anywhere else yet) and buy and read the book.
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There are lots of things that could be said about what’s going on in Iraq. Since there are already lots of things that are being said I don’t think there’s anything to add for me. However, just the other day, in this endless flow of “news” about bombs and dead soldiers (and always scores of dead civilians, which isn’t really newsworthy any longer), there was this feature in the New York Times, and it hit me: That was the New York Times’ Vietnam War moment, with coverage of an ambush on US troops that looked just like what we so far only used to see in documentaries about the Vietnam War (watch it before they make it disappear behind their commercial firewall).
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“Prosecutor: While living in Bosnia, the detainee associated with a known al-Qaida operative. Detainee: Give me his name. President of the tribunal: I do not know. Detainee: How can I respond to this? President: Did you know of anybody who was a member of al-Qaida? Detainee: No, no. President: I’m sorry, what was your response? Detainee: No. If you tell me the name, I can respond and defend myself against this accusation. President: We are asking you the questions and we need you to respond to what is on the classified summary.” found in this article
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I wasn’t going to post anything any longer about George W. Bush but I can’t refrain from this one. In case you’re wondering, no, you’re not drunk, and no, this is also no joke (which comedian would be able to come up with something this absurd?): “Bill and Georgia Thomas reported they were elated Monday when they met in the Oval Office with President George W. Bush to present him with a Purple Heart. […] The couple was able to meet with President Bush for about 20 minutes to present him with one of three Purple Hearts that Bill Thomas received during his service in Vietnam. […] Thomas said he and his wife came up with the unprecedented idea to present the president with the Purple Heart over breakfast one morning a few months ago as they discussed the verbal attacks, both foreign and domestic, the commander in chief has withstood during his time in office.” (story)
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“This country, speaking through its government, does not favor gun control. The massacre at Virginia Tech is a logical consequence of that reality. Are we sorry that 32 people, most of them no older than 22, were killed? Of course. But we aren’t so sorry that we intend to do anything to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. We value the lives of Mary Read, Ryan Clark, Leslie Sherman, and all the rest, but we value more their killer Cho Seung Hui’s untrammeled right to purchase not only a Glock 19 and a Walther P22, but also the ammunition clips that, according to the April 18 Washington Post, would have been impossible to obtain legally had Congress not allowed President Clinton’s assault-weapon ban to expire three years ago. […] There are people in this country today who, one day in the future, will be gunned down by psychopaths like Cho Seung Hui. […] We could spare these lives - some of them, at least - by making it difficult or impossible to acquire a handgun in the United States. But we choose not to. Tough luck, whoever you are.” (story)
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No April Fool’s Day Joke: “The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell’s 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author’s former London home. […] According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily. […] On the wall outside his former residence - flat number 27B - where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.” - story
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“Global climate change is ‘very likely’ to have a human cause, an influential group of scientists has concluded.” - story
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If you want to find out how you can ruin a modern democracy, look at the advice spinmeister Frank Luntz has to offer: He’ll help you sell anything, you just have to use the right words. Read this interview.
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“More than 60 years after the end of World War II, the Germans seem ready to laugh about Hitler. But there’s doubt about whether they will be splitting their sides if they go to see the country’s first film comedy about the dictator which opens this week. It just isn’t funny enough, say reviewers.” - story
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“Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called ‘water-boarding,’ which creates a sensation of drowning. Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn’t regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it.” (story) So this is how this works: We do not torture, because we don’t consider anything we do to be torture. That’s not going to work, though, because waterboarding is considered to be torture by, for example, human rights organizations (see, for example, here), and whether Mr Cheney considers it not to be torture is irrelevant (unfortunately not for the people subjected to torture).
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The man that we didn’t bother to catch when we had the chance is out there to get you! Be very afraid!
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I think it might tell us something about the state of our society that this article and this article are talking about the same study. I’m afraid what it tells us is not very flattering.
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“North Korea must be the only nuclear power in the world which is so poor that its top scientists are forced to spend their free time making kitchen utensils. It is not Kim Jong Il’s megalomania nor his obsession with sovereignty which makes this regime so dangerous. Rather, it’s the country’s failures and weaknesses.” - story
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“A major detainee bill hurtling down the HOV lane in Congress today would determine the extent to which the president can define and authorize torture. […] One hardly needs a law degree to understand that in a controversy over detainee treatment between the executive and legislative branches, the trump will go to the guy who’s holding the unnamed detainees in secret prisons. […] No serious reader of the detainee-compromise bill can dispute that the whole point here is to sideline the courts. This bill immunizes some forms of detainee abuse and ignores others. It strips courts of habeas-corpus jurisdiction and denies so-called unlawful enemy combatants […] the right to assert Geneva Convention claims in courts. Many detainees may never stand trial on the most basic question of whether they have done anything wrong. And courts will apparently now be powerless to do anything about any of this.” (story) “The White House was allowed to blatantly rewrite the pending legislation in regard to habeas corpus and the definition of enemy combatants. This time around, amid the mind-numbing blur of end-of-session legislative maneuvers, these aggressive efforts by the administration to be allowed to hold detainees for years (and even maybe decades) without judicial review has provoked only dutiful resistance from most congressional Democrats and a so-what shrug from the press and the public.” (story)
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“On Tuesday, the Deutsche Oper, one of Berlin’s three opera houses, announced the cancellation of a provocative production of a Mozart opera in hopes of avoiding potential Islamist terrorist attacks. The production would have included a scene depicting the severed head of Muhammad alongside those of other religious figures. But instead of avoiding controversy, the opera house’s decision has fuelled attacks — though from an altogether different source. Over the last 24 hours, Kirsten Harms, the Deutsche Oper’s chief director, has faced a constant barrage of incredulity and scorn from German public officials. The cancellation has been loudly condemned as a betrayal of basic German values and freedom of expression.” (story; also see this article for a particularly elegant discussion of why the Deutsche Opera’s decision was wrong)
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Back in the 1950s, the United States went through a phase of immense paranoia about Communism, whipped up in large part by infamous Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Like all carefully orchestrated political campaigns that lack substance and that are ultimately just attempts to perform a series of character assassinations, McCarthy’s came down on June 9, 1954, when Joseph Welch, a lawyer from Boston, asked McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency?” (see, for example, this short summary). If you’re interested in watching what might well be a fairly similar moment today, watch Keith Olberman comment on the latest speech by Donald Rumsfeld.
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“Israel deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure and committed war crimes during the month-long conflict in Lebanon, according to an Amnesty International report. The report said strikes on civilian buildings and structures went beyond ‘collateral damage’ and amounted to indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks under the Geneva conventions on the laws of war.” - story
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“Weighed down by the unpopular war in Iraq, Bush and his aides have tried to shift the national political debate from that conflict to the broader and more popular global war on terrorism ahead of November 7 congressional elections.” (story)
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After losing his primary election, one of the most despicable US Senators, Joe Lieberman, channels the true Brechtian spirit: “For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand,” he said (source), thus basically telling the world that voters who don’t vote for him cannot be trusted, or as Brecht put it, “Would it not be easier […] To dissolve the people and elect another?” (found here, at the bottom). He’s now running as a Republican. No wait, they already have a candidate, he’s running as a *nudge-nudge wink-wink* “independent”. No wonder Bush jr - who brought you that wonderful democracy in Iraq - just loves the guy (and vice versa).
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Every war needs it propaganda, and Israel’s bombing of Lebanon is no exception. Der Spiegel already reported in detail how Israel’s propaganda machinery works. It seems places like YouTube are now being used excessively by both sides, too - you can find some links on this page (ignore the text if you don’t understand it - the links are all red).
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“Responsibility for the Israeli airstrikes that killed at least 54 civilians sheltering in a home in the Lebanese village of Qana rests squarely with the Israeli military, Human Rights Watch said today. It is the latest product of an indiscriminate bombing campaign that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have waged in Lebanon over the past 18 days, leaving an estimated 750 people dead, the vast majority of them civilians. […] Even if the IDF claims of Hezbollah rocket fire from the Qana area are correct, Israel remains under a strict obligation to direct attacks at only military objectives, and to take all feasible precautions to avoid the incidental loss of civilian life. To date, Israel has not presented any evidence to show that Hezbollah was present in or around the building that was struck at the time of the attack.” - story
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Oh, the good old world of powerful men with its built-in disdain of women, given such a high-profile demonstration at the so-called G8 meeting - right out of the “Sexual Harrassment for Dummies” manual. Read about the German reaction, and learn why the incident “might even help Merkel achieve renewed popularity in Germany. A commentator writing in Sunday edition of Germany’s conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung expressed sympathy for Merkel. ‘Then, after a brief moment of deliberation, Bush lowered his head with determination, like a ram, and placed his paws around Merkel’s neck from behind, startling her, making her cringe and raise her hands — profoundly horrified and defenseless to such an extent that we immediately felt lasting sympathy for her.’” No comment.
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Just a few days after mentioning China’s environmental problems in my review of Edward Burtynsky’s ‘China’, I came across this feature on these problems. If you’re not all that concerned, maybe this quote will make you change your mind: “Scientists in California and the Pacific Northwest have made a startling discovery in recent years. Pollution from China, they say, is degrading the air quality along the West Coast of the United States. Soot, mercury, and acid-rain producing compounds from Chinese power plants and factories have reached such high levels that the pollution is now spreading across the Pacific.”
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“Reading US, Israeli and Arab commentaries and analyses of the current conflicts raging in the Middle East is a disturbing exercise.” - James Zogby
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I’m not all that interested in contributing to the debate who is to blame for the latest war in the Middle East - with both sides causing the deaths of literally hundreds of innocent civilians this is a discussion which I personally find somewhat sickening. I found these images online, of young children writing messages on artillery shells (see above, see the entry at The Guardian’s blog and also this blog entry). If these images do not sum up the essence of why the region is in the state it is in right now, I don’t know what else will (and don’t bother to point out the nationality of the children - you can easily find corresponding images from the other side).
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Billmon comments on what he calls blood discount.
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Today, the US Supreme Court “held that Common Article 3 of Geneva aplies as a matter of treaty obligation to the conflict against Al Qaeda. That is the HUGE part of today’s ruling. The commissions are the least of it. This basically resolves the debate about interrogation techniques, because Common Article 3 provides that detained persons ‘shall in all circumstances be treated humanely,’ and that ‘[t]o this end,’ certain specified acts ‘are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever’ - including ‘cruel treatment and torture,’ and ‘outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment.’ This standard, not limited to the restrictions of the due process clause, is much more restrictive than even the McCain Amendment. […] This almost certainly means that the CIA’s interrogation regime is unlawful, and indeed, that many techniques the Administation has been using, such as waterboarding and hypothermia (and others) violate the War Crimes Act (because violations of Common Article 3 are deemed war crimes).” - story
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“Most people, mainly aware of larger day-to-day fluctuations in the weather, barely notice that climate, the average weather, is changing. In the 1980s I started to use colored dice that I hoped would help people understand global warming at an early stage. Of the six sides of the dice only two sides were red, or hot, representing the probability of having an unusually warm season during the years between 1951 and 1980. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, four sides were red. Just such an increase in the frequency of unusually warm seasons, in fact, has occurred. But most people - who have other things on their minds and can use thermostats - have taken little notice.” - story
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“if there was any doubt about where the contemporary art market is going, they were dispelled this morning at Christie’s Baghdad, where the US Government paid a record-setting $286 billion - plus $240 for framing - for this portrait of the dead Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.” (“story”)
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Have a look at a new Amnesty International Campaign against torture. And it does happen, and some people are even openly talking about it.
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“Of course, things have gone sour [in Iraq], and now a lot of Americans are jumping on the bandwagon of ‘Hey, we shouldnÂ’t have gone there.’ But, again, at what point in time, I ask these newfound converts to the anti-war movement, did this become a bad war? See, thatÂ’s a key question people have to ask. I say it was a bad war the day we invaded Iraq, because itÂ’s an illegal war. ItÂ’s totally out of keeping with my personal vision of what America stands for […] we stand for a whole bunch of things. But we donÂ’t stand for planning and implementing wars of aggression. I donÂ’t think America represents a nation that embraces war crimes, and a lot of people were willing to sweep all this under the rug had we won, had we been victorious, which tells me that they have a superficial understanding of what the United States represents” - Scott Ritter
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One of the big successes of the Republican Party has been to convert artificial outrage into the basis of their political platform. This is done in such a way that people who are hurt the most by what the Republican Party is doing are most happy to vote for them. The babies! Jesus! They like to call this “values”, but it really has about as much to do with actual values as the Easter Bunny with Jesus or GW Bush with competence, namely nothing. In any case, there’s an article in the Washington Post about a left-wing political blogger, which made me realize that the big success of those blogs is very similar to the success of, for example, Bill O’Reilly. You just need to replace the outrage about the babies with the outrage about GW Bush, say. It’s interesting to see the photo they picked for the article. Not only is it most unflattering to shoot somebody from below (even I would have a double chin if you did that), they also waited for a moment where the subject of the article almost looks unhinged. And note the glass of red wine on the table. I have no way to prove this, but it looks to me as if somebody was trying to send a pretty clear message there at the Washington Post.
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It is always refreshing to find an article about “globalization” that does not parrot the naive pair of views that globalization either will lead to paradise on Earth or is mere exploitation of poor countries by the rich.
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“The horrors carried out during the last three months of 2003 by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison are shockingly familiar and, at the same time, oddly remote. […] Beyond the collapse of military discipline and adherence to the basic rules of civilized behavior, Abu Ghraib also symbolized the failure of a democratic society to investigate well-documented abuses by its soldiers. […] Abu Ghraib cannot be allowed to fade away like some half-forgotten domestic political controversy, which may have prompted newsmagazine covers at the time, but now seems as irrelevant as the 2002 elections. Abu Ghraib is not an issue of partisan sound bites or refighting the decision to invade Iraq. Grotesque violations of every value that America proclaims occurred within the walls of that prison. These abuses were carried out by soldiers who wore our flag on their uniforms and apparently believed that Americans here at home would approve of their conduct. […] That is why Salon is willing to publish these troubling photographs, even as we are ashamed to live in a country that somehow came to accept that torture and prisoner abuse were simply business as usual — something that occurs while a sergeant catches up on his paperwork.” - story, with some background and the photos. Update: Salon.com just published 279 photographs and 19 videos ” from the Army’s internal investigation”.
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“To align yourself with the powerful and then take aim at the powerless takes not one ounce of valour. To prop up prevailing hierarchies and orthodoxies rather than challenge them demands not a scintilla of bravery. True, like Summers, you may run into trouble. But just look who’s covering your back. With the prevailing winds of war, prejudice or the state on your side, the odds are with you. Since the privileges you are defending are inherent in the commentariat […] your worldview is constantly being reinforced. It may still be the right thing to do - the weak should not be protected from criticism nor the strong denied praise solely on the grounds of their relative material strength. But those who choose Goliath’s corner cannot then claim underdog status once David gets out his slingshot. Take the Danish cartoons. They were first printed in a country that supports the war in Iraq, where the far-right Danish People’s party receives 13% of the vote and where, according to the Danish Institute for Human Rights, racially motivated crimes doubled between 2004 and 2005. […] These cartoons did not appear in a vacuum. In publishing them the editor of Jyllands-Posten had illustrated not just an insensitive Islamophobic jibe but a racist mindset that has consequences for Muslims worldwide. He had a right to print them. But to do so in this context was an act of bigotry, not bravery. Underpinning this peculiar notion of courage is the feeble-minded obsession with political correctness - the ultimate refuge of the baseless argument and the clueless commentator.” - story
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“We support and cherish democracy - not because we reject the sovereignty of the Almighty over people, but because we believe that this sovereignty is manifested in the general will of people in a democratic and pluralistic society. We do not accept theocratic rule-not because we do not wish to obey Allah, but because theocratic rule inevitably becomes rule by fallible (and sometimes corrupt and misguided) humans in the name of the infallible God. […] We believe that women have the same inalienable rights as men. We strongly denounce laws and attitudes in some Islamic societies that exclude women from society by denying them the rights of education, political participation and the individual pursuit of happiness. Like men, women should have the right to decide how they will live, dress, travel, marry and divorce; if they do not enjoy these rights, they are clearly second-class citizens.” - A Muslim Manifesto
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Lest we forget this other side of China, that we don’t talk about much any longer since there is so much money to be made there: “After 16 years, Tiananmen dissident Yu Dongyue was finally freed from prison yesterday, but with his mental health impaired. […] According to a fellow dissident who visited him later in another prison he was subjected to beatings and torture. He showed scars on his head and other evidence of extensive abuse and appeared to have suffered a complete mental collapse — he did not recognise life-long friends and kept repeating words over and over. Other inmates said he had been tied to a pole and left in the sun for several days before being locked in solitary confinement for another two years. Upon his release, he reportedly could not recognise family members and kept mumbling to himself.” (story)
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The consequences of this ruling are fairly obvious: Porn company “Perfect 10 alleges that the display of the thumbnail is a direct violation of its copyright, and that the display of the larger image, even though it is hosted by a third-party Web site, constitutes a secondary copyright infringement on the part of Google. Judge Matz ruled that Perfect 10 had submitted enough evidence to conclude that it would succeed in a trial on its claim of direct copyright infringement.” If that’s true for porn, it’s true for any kind of photo, and that could open a big can of worms for the world of commercial and art photography.
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“Four years after September 11, several new books now present well-annotated, chronologically organized collections of bin Laden’s words. […] They do not, by and large, make for fascinating reading. As Bruce Lawrence […] notes […] the arch terrorist is, above all, a polemicist. He is a soapbox orator, scoring unsubtle points in an imaginary debate by drawing on a mix of Islamic scripture, faddish political constructs, and gross exaggeration, as well as real historical grievances. […] For all his aura of religious punctiliousness, bin Laden twists Islamic texts to his purposes. He seems happy to engage in factual distortion and, occasionally, the politician’s bald-faced lie. […] So misplaced are many of his citations from Islamic scripture that in all likelihood, one of the best ways to diminish the al-Qaeda leader’s stature would be to publish his words more widely in the Muslim world.” - story
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“There is a real need to re-think the understanding of multiculturalism, so as to avoid conceptual disarray about social identity and also to resist the purposeful exploitation of the divisiveness that this conceptual disarray allows and even, to some extent, encourages. What has to be particularly avoided […] is the confusion between a multiculturalism that goes with cultural liberty, on the one side, and plural monoculturalism that goes with faith-based separatism, on the other. A nation can hardly be seen as a collection of sequestered segments, with citizens being assigned places in predetermined segments.” (story; and you’ll need this)
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You know, this isn’t only very well done, this also captures perfectly the attitude of Dick Cheney. Oh, and the main line is an actual quote, used by the man on the Senate floor towards somebody who just wouldn’t want to agree with him.
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I’m filing this under “politics” even though it belongs into a variety of different categories. “Made in China” is a fascinating set of articles written by John Schmid and Rick Romell about China’s economic boom and interation with the West, and what that has meant so far for both the West and China (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 - if you’re not registered check out this page). Needless to say, there are still many details missing - if you start reading about China’s environmental problems (which, btw, are turning rapdily into the world’s), your stomach starts turning.
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Well, George Orwell was British after all: “In March, Britain will enhance its reputation as the surveillance capital of the West with a global first: recording the movements of all cars on the road and storing the data for at least two years.” (story)
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“Since Sept. 11, the CIA has played a vital role in the war on terror. But what role is it? Operating in the shadows, American secret services have been given wide-ranging powers by the Bush Administration.” - full story
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It’s probably not a good sign that a summary of what German newspapers were writing about Condoleezza Rice visit to Berlin is entitled Does Anyone Believe Condoleezza Rice?. Interesting (or ironic?) how it seems Germans have internalized what they were taught about democracy and the law after World War II to such an extent that now they feel confident to lecture their former mentors, writing “The message [of Mrs Rice] can also be translated thus: The end justifies the means, terrorism can be fought with borderline methods on the outer edges of legality.” and “It remains unclear exactly what definition Washington uses for torture.” PS: It’s interesting to see how the Washington Post’s “media blog” almost exclusively focuses on what “the outnumbered online commentators of the European Right” write. Needless to say, if you only look at what your sycophants write, you’re not going to gain much.
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“Since 9/11, as government documents and news reports have made clear, the CIA’s experimental approach to coercive interrogation has been revived. Last week, as the Washington Post revealed the existence of secret CIA-run prisons—’black sites’—in Eastern Europe, Vice President Dick Cheney continued to campaign to ensure that the agency will not be prevented from using ‘cruel, inhumane, and degrading’ methods to elicit intelligence from detainees. The operatives of the 1940s would approve.” - story
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“If the pragmatic gains [of torture] in terms of information yielded are dubious, the loss to America in terms of public opinion are clear and horrifically large. […] This time, the world’s most magnificent democracy is struggling against vile terrorists who thought nothing of slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians - and yet the administration has somehow contrived to turn America’s own human-rights record into a subject of legitimate debate. Mr Bush would rightly point out that anti-Americanism is to blame for some of the opprobrium heaped on his country. But why encourage it so cavalierly and in such an unAmerican way?” - leader in the magazine for people who think you can eat money
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Now it’s safe to criticize the president. There’s not much - if anything - I’d like to add other than this: This whole affair (aka the Bush jr presidency) reminds me of buying a car from a used-car salesman of the somewhat shoddy side. You enter the showroom, and the salesman offers you a “great deal”. Now, you know that there’s something wrong with the guy, but he’s “likable” - or so you convince yourself (despite obvious signs to the contrary) - and he knows what he’s talking about (ditto), and the car looks great. You don’t look under the hood or check the tires, because why would such a nice person lie to you? So you buy the car, paying a price, which might or might not reflect the actual value (you neglect feelings that there’s a problem). When the car breaks down and turns out to be a complete lemon, you do the act that you prepared yourself for when you first met the guy. You act surprised, you can’t believe somebody would lie to you, you’re outraged, you just had no idea! And you go back to the dealer just to find out the guy really is clueless; he still keep praising the car, which didn’t even make it back to the showroom. But it’s too late, you signed the contract, your money is gone, you’re stuck with the lemon, and you’ll only be able to get a new car in what appears to be three years. And it’s all the salesman’s fault! How could you know?!
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