Dec. 24, 2020
Mohammed Hafedh Abdulrazzaq Kinani with a photo of his 9-year-old son, Ali, who was killed by Blackwater contractors in Baghdad in 2007. President Trump’s pardon of Ali’s killers has shaken Mr. Kinani’s faith in American justice.Credit.Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press
The youngest victim of the 2007 massacre in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, committed by Blackwater mercenaries whom Donald Trump pardoned on Tuesday, was a 9-year-old boy named Ali Kinani.
In a 2010 documentary, the journalist Jeremy Scahill interviewed Ali’s father, Mohammed Hafedh Abdulrazzaq Kinani, who spoke of how he’d welcomed the American invasion of his country and brought along his son to greet U.S. soldiers. “The first day the American Army entered Baghdad, I handed out juice and candy in the street to celebrate our liberation from Saddam,” said Kinani. Scahill called him “that rare personification of the neoconservative narrative about the U.S. invasion.”
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Trumpâs Pentagon Turmoil Stirs Fear Of A âCoup In Progressâ Department of Defense photo by Chad J. McNeeley
Reprinted with permission from Alternet
Fears that a possible slow-motion coup is in progress in the United States continued to grow on Wednesday, as observers sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump s decision to install extreme Republican partisans at the Pentagon after his firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper resulted in resignations by numerous top officials at the department earlier this week.
The stacking of the Pentagon with Trump loyalistsâcombined with the president s ongoing refusal to accept his electoral defeat and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo s Tuesday comment that there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration âhas heightened concerns about the Republican Party s authoritarianism and left experts and lawmakers warning that the country is in the midst of an extremely dangerous moment.
Space Force Mocked by Everyone for Calling Members ‘Guardians : ‘How Is This NOT a Joke’
New military sub branch claims it took a year to come up with that apparent reference to Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy”Andrea Towers | December 18, 2020 @ 5:01 PM Last Updated: December 18, 2020 @ 5:32 PM
Capping off a thoroughly embarrassing year for the nation’s newest not-actually-independent, not-actually-separate branch of the military, the U.S. Space Force on Friday invited nearly universal ridicule when it rolled out the official title by which its personnel will be known “Guardians.”
Along with an extremely self conscious slogan justifying that ridiculous title that invited even more mockery.
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WOW, 20 years. TWENTY! A very, very Happy 20th (TWENTIETH!) anniversary to Josh Marshall and Talking Points Memo. A tremendous accomplishment. I’m not an Internet historian by any means, but I just did some quick research and I’m pretty sure that www.talkingpointsmemo.com is literally the only website from the year 2000 that still exists.
Wait, hang on a second… no way…
eBaumsWorld still exists????
[goes down 4 hour eBaumsWorld rabbit hole]
Hi. Hello. Where am I? Ah yes, TPM. Where to even begin talking about TPM? It’s impossible to put my feelings into words. And when I hit writer’s block, I like to use a little trick that I call: talk about myself. So then…
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