EE UU intenta que la UE acepte la presencia de agentes armados en los vuelos transoceánicos · ELPAÍS.com …or “US requests approval from the EU the presence of armed agents in transatlantic flights” It is clear that the US is turning into — maybe it is already — a police state. By coercing the EU to accept new anti civil […]
Tag Archives: politics
What we did to Iran
Robert Naiman: If Americans Knew What We Did to Iran, Would We Still Talk About Using Force? — Politics on The Huffington Post
Obama’s Foreign Policy
Barack Obama’s foreign policy | Democracy in America | Economist.com For some reason I am inclined to trust someone who has actually lived outside of the United States, not in diplomatic mission, or as a soldier, but actually lived, studied, interacted with people. A foreign policy by a person who has a world vision that is complex enough to understand […]
Fear
Increasing efforts to make people afraid. Apparently airports are not enough. This government’s first priority has been to keep its population afraid. By putting heavily armed guards in the subway you will have succeded in anihilating by fear that inner city liberalism you so much despise.
Iraq in Fragments
This weekend I was delighted to be part of an international documentary film festival. I was helping with the organizational stuff as a volunteer, and I got a few free tickets for the movies. Most of them were interesting, but there was one in particular that I was really impressed. Iraq in Fragments is a film by director James Longley. It is […]
Fear
ce faci Originally uploaded by Janrito Karamazov. Recently we have heard a lot about how the George W. Bush administration uses scare tactics to bend the population’s opinion about the current issues, or take away the attention of the people from the real issues. I thought that the efficiency of those tactics where limited to Americans. Americans […]
protester
This weekend marked the 3 year aniversary of the conflict in Iraq. There was a demonstration in Boston. It started in Dudley square, Roxbury, at 11am and it reached downtown about 4 hours later. The march was peaceful and with not many problems. The kid in the photo was one of the protesters. Him, and many others were […]