POLITICS, POETRY & SATIRE
Was it an assassination or suicide? If an assassination, who had the most to gain from Litvinenko’s death? Britain’s intelligence agencies last night claimed that the poisoning of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko bore the hallmarks of a “state-sponsored” assassination. A senior Whitehall official told The Times that confirmation that the former Russian spy, who …
With Karpinski willing to testify, happily Rummie’s future looks very bleak. Karma is sweet. Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison’s former U.S. commander said in an interview on Saturday. Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told Spain’s El Pais newspaper she had …
Horrifying footage of pathological US soldiers taunting Iraqi children with bottles of water – clean water is in very short supply in Iraq because of the bombing of water treatment plants by the septics and lack of rebuilding since. Why aren’t these depraved monsters in jail?
Great article by Jonathan Cook: Key allies such as Britain’s Tony Blair are pushing strongly for engagement with Syria, both to further isolate Iran — the possible target of either a US or Israeli strike against its presumed ambitions for nuclear weapons — and to clear the path to negotiations with the Palestinians. Gemayel’s death, …
As we predicted before the outset, Iraq has been an almighty stuff up with the war crims Bush, Howard and Blair deserving of public humiliation and imprisonment for their illegal aggressions, deceits and slaughter. Yet this latest aggression is just the last of a long line of deliberate interferences by western mercantilist interests to ensure …
