Month September 2008

Protest is dead. Long live global guerillas

John Robb Very cool demonstration from Minnesota of how police forces have been militarized. In addition to the five fold growth in SWAT forces since the 90’s, there’s been a shift in attitude. All likely due to a misdirection of …

Obama on Palin’s pregnant daughter

“I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know, my…

The Left and the RNC police abuses

How bad is it in the Twin Cities? Glenn Greenwald Here’s a woman being pepper-sprayed at close range by a marching legion of police while standing on the side of the road holding a flower. Yup, she was just standing…

Pre-Summit Meeting on Georgia’s Future

Yesterday, I attended a meeting organised by the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. Speaking were: Temuri Yakobashvili, State Minister of Georgia for Reintegration Radoslaw Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland Radoslaw Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland Matthew Bryza, U.S. Deputy Assistant…