What is John Walker Lindh guilty of?
One critic may have come closest to revealing the real reason Lindh may face up to 20 years in prison: to make an example of anyone who deviates “from the whitewashed mythology of pure American patriotism.” (More…) Total control, not self-defense, behind US plans to topple Saddam “The United States reserves its option to do whatever it believes might be appropriate to see if there can be a regime change,” said US Secretary of State Colin Powell. He was talking about Iraq, but he could have been talking about any country. The US not only reserves the right to change regimes it doesn’t like, it has been actively doing so for decades. Saddam Hussein’s regime simply stands at the summit of a long line of nationalist, socialist and communist regimes the United States has sought to topple, in favor of installing pro-US, pro-capitalist, quisling governments. (More…) America’s Virtue: Mollycoddling the stinking rich In the Canadian view, American-style capitalism becomes Bill Gate’s palati
