International affairs

The Bush Wedding - doin' it big, Texan style

North Coast Voices - May 12, 2008 - 2:19pm

In marrying 30-year old Henry Hager, Jenna Bush, the daughter of US President George Bush, didn't do things in half measures. Read more »

Ignorance rules

The Road to Surfdom - April 16, 2008 - 2:21pm

It’s been obvious almost from the beginning of the first Bush Administration that neither Bush nor his kitchen cabinet had much interest in or knowledge of the world outside the USA. They blundered from one embarrassment to another, screwing up or forgetting funny foreign names, confusing Sunnis and Shiites (that’s after the penny finally dropped that the Middle East wasn’t populated by homogeneous Muslim terrorists), expressing child-like amazement at the size of Brazil on a map and so on. Read more »

A cynical George Bush advances US interests in the face of global food shortages

North Coast Voices - May 3, 2008 - 2:46am

Two days ago US President George Bush announced increased food aid to assist with a global food shortage, partly caused by increased dedication of land to biofuel crops world-wide and in America $5 billion annually in domestic subsidies for bio-fuel production.   THE PRESIDENT:  In recent weeks, many have expressed concern about the sig Read more »

A league of democratic gentlemen

The Road to Surfdom - March 24, 2008 - 5:22pm

John McCain has floated a few weird ideas over the last few years, since he decided the way to succeed George W Bush was to stop this half-hearted warmongering and get in boots and all, but the weirdest has been this ‘league of democracies’ he keeps talking about. Read more »