Dr Binayak Sen
Dr Binayak Sen“This is a wider war. And whether we have democracy in Iraq or not, it doesn’t mean a tinker’s damn if we end up with the result we want, which is a regime over there that’s not a threat to us.”“Yeah,” Mr. Rumsfeld said, taking notes.
From Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand, on the New York Times website today. Read more »
The next UN investigator into Israel conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due. [...] Read more »
Well... the US wrongfully imprisoned someone and fucked with his head to the extent that he felt a desire to enact some kind of vicious revenge. Is this really a surprise?
A spokesman for US military's Central Command told The Associated Press today that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul. Read more »
This story from Brisbane's toilet paper newspaper, the Courier Mail, serves to remind us of just how ridiculous Australian society has become, and just how our freedoms were undermined during John Howard's reign as Prime Minister. The fear of 'terror' is so pervasive that people can't carry out perfectly normal activities without having someone jump up and threaten them with arrest under some 'anti-terr' law or another. Read more »
Old news, but no less preposterous for being a little stale:US lawmakers want Venezuela on US list of terrorism sponsors - A bit rich given that the US-backed regime in Colombia recently conducted an illegal bombing raid over the Ecuadorian border and the only thing Chávez is really guilty of is not being a right-wing dictator willing to suck up to the US and bow to its every whim. Read more »
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