Subject: War Crimes

• In Darfur

  Waltmar Theater

  April 23, 2009

• A Bad Day for Bush, and maybe waterboarding

  The Supreme Court today ruled the Bush administration must do one of those things it is always extremely reluctant to do: obey the law. By a vote of 5-3, the Supremes said the administration can't proceed with its plans to try prisoners at Guantanamo Bay before military tribunals. Writing for the majority, John Paul Stevens (appointed by President Ford) declared the planned tribunals were illegal under both US law and the Geneva Conventions. Over at SCOTUSblog (SCOTUS may sould like a skin dise

  June 29, 2006

• Who is David Duke's Favorite Orange Countian?

  *Updated below . . . Why, none other than our favorite non-racist white supremacist, of course! Martin Millard has made a name for himself in extremist circles thanks to rants against the "Tan Everyman," drawn local ire due to his influence over Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor, and even garnered attention from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Millard's been on a writing tear as of late thanks to the proposed amnesty bill currently in the Senate. He's not happy with it—indeed, he calls i

  May 24, 2007

• Hugh Hewitt is an Idiot (Part One Billion)

  Orange County's most prominent talk-show host (take a seat, Joe Escalante) frequently proclaims himself independent of the Republican Party, but everyone knows that's a damn lie. Hugh Hewitt's latest example, however, is particularly egregious not only because he spins for the GOP, but he also skewers his old boss in the process. In his post, Hewitt blames the Democratic Party of the 1970s for the Cambodian genocide and Vietnamese re-education camps and warns the Democrats of today that, simila

  August 23, 2007

• Local Armenian Genocide Deniers Trying to Influence Congressional Race

  *Moved up, because the conversation is fun. Non-Armenians and non-Turks encouraged to comment! The Los Angeles Times had a fascinating story yesterday about how Turkish businessmen held a fundraiser last month in Orange County for the opponent of Glendale-area Congressman Adam Schiff. They don't like Schiff because he dared tried to pass a House resolution that would acknowledge the Armenian genocide, a historical fact that only Turkish nationalists and their apologists deny. Leading the charge

  November 4, 2008

• Turkey People the New Holocausted Jews?*

  What is it about Orange County that creates fools who make ridiculous comparisons of their causes to the suffering Jews experienced during the Holocaust? A couple of years ago, it was the Minuteman mexicana, Lupe Moreno, rambling about how Mexican immigrants were the new Nazis, while American whites were the Jews. "I would wonder how was it possible that a whole nation of people, millions and millions, would let something as evil as the Holocaust happen?" Moreno wrote in 2003. "How could they be

  November 28, 2008

• Local Armenian Genocide Denier Demands Apology...From Armenians

  *Updated, with new information on the bottom...In the Department of WTF comes this: local Armenian genocide denier Ergun Kirlikovali is circulating an online petition demanding an apology from, amongst other groups, the Armenians that the Ottoman Empire genocided in the early 1900s!In his most recent column for Turkla.com, Kirlikovali links to and references a campaign by Turkish activists called "I do not apologize" in which they seek for people to not refer to the Armenian genocide as a genoci

  December 19, 2008

• Local Armenian Genocide Denier Labels Armenians the Genociders!

  The hilarities of Orange County's obsessive Ottoman, Ergun Kirlikovali, never cease. Last week, he urged readers of his Turkla.com column to send along to elected officials a pre-written letter authored by the U.S. Azeris Network (USAN) to commemorate March 31 as a day of rememberance for what Azeris call the March Events, a series of massacres involving Armenians and Azeris in 1918. How interesting that Kirlikovali, who'll comment on various websites that the Armenian genocide never happened be

  March 13, 2009

• Cambodia

  May 10, 2001

• New Reviews

  Guadalupe; The History Boys; Screamers; Unaccompanied Minors

  December 7, 2006

• Something to Scream About

  Screamers director and System of a Down join forces to decry Armenian genocide

  December 7, 2006

• Other Perspectives

  'Golden States of Grace'

  November 16, 2006

• Hatesville, USA

  July 20, 2006

• Ties That Blind

  January 6, 2005

• Repetition in Politics, News, Big Business and Human Suffering

  December 2, 2004

• Genocide Reloaded

  August 19, 2004

• Mourning in Guatemala

  June 24, 2004

• Look Back in Anguish

  December 5, 2002

• Genocide Is Bad

  August 29, 2002

• Khmer Rap

  June 27, 2002

• New Music

  February 21, 2002

• Letters

  March 18, 1999

• Local H.

  December 31, 1998

• UCI Muslim Student Union Event Draws Ire of Local Jews

  As this promotional video shows, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union is at it again, presenting 18 days of events this month under the banner "Israel: the Politics of Genocide." Among those coming to the campus through May 21 are: George Galloway, the British member of Parliament who speaks against the occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine; Cynthia McKinney, the former Georgia congresswoman and 2008 Green Party presidential nominee who is part of the Free Gaza Movement; Anna Baltzer, the J

  May 8, 2009

• Tuesday is a Big Night for Darfur in Orange County

  Photo by Rev. Wilfredo Benitez for Orange County for DarfurMia Farrow may have ended her hunger strike for Darfur last week, but the spotlight remains on the lingering effects of genocide in the Sudan--at least in Orange County tomorrow night. Orange County for Darfur was formed in June 2007 to raise awareness among local residents and elected officials to the genocide, and the all-volunteer members have worked diligently to continue pressing their message ever since. Their next monthly planning

  May 11, 2009

• Local Armenian Genocide Denier Issues Lamest Legal Threat Ever!

  We hadn't heard anything particularly wacky from Orange County's own obsessive Ottoman, the racist Ergun Kirlikovali of Coto de Caza, for quite some time--that is, anything other than the same tired slanders he spews of Armenians as treasonous ingrates and those who know the Ottoman Empire genocided Armenians around World War I as anti-Turkish. I actually stopped regularly checking Turkla.com, a Turkish-American website where he is the featured columnist, to see if Kirlikovali had published anyt

  July 9, 2009