links for 2008-03-16

• Dueling Human Rights Reports
  Every year, the U.S.-China exchange of human rights reports is one of my favorite events to observe. Not only does it invariably produce some amusing bureaucratic sniping, but of late, it’s also become one of the best front seats from which to witness the
  (tags: China USA human+rights diplomacy stupidity)
• Think Progress » Blog Archive » Cheney Five Years Ago: ‘We Will, In Fact, Be Greeted As Liberators’
  This Sunday will mark the fifth anniversary of Vice President Dick Cheney’s disastrous and uninformed prediction that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators in Iraq:
  (tags: Cheney stupidity wingnuts Iraq flowers+and+chocolates war)
• Most Economists in Survey Say Recession Is Here – WSJ.com
  Economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey are increasingly certain the U.S. has slid into recession, a view reinforced by new data showing a sharp drop in retail sales last month.
  (tags: interesting funny Economy recession)
• Pentagon reports increase in harassment – Yahoo! News
  One-third of women in the military and 6 percent of men said they were sexually harassed, according to the latest Pentagon survey on the issue.
  (tags: sexism misogyny Pentagon army women wtf)
• The Associated Press: My Lai Marks 40th Massacre Anniversary
  To the villagers who survived the My Lai massacre and many of the Americans who fought in the Vietnam War, all the anniversaries of the atrocity are important.

  But Sunday’s anniversary — the 40th — seems especially urgent to some of the Americans w

  (tags: my+lai vietnam anniversary massacre)

~ by SAP on 16 March 2008.