Does Big Brother watch NHK?
Does Japan’s state TV station suffer state censorship? This is the question that has set Japan’s blogosphere buzzing since the Ishikawa earthquake on March 25. Nagaijin has alerted me to…
Brazil is now
There was an interesting piece in the online Guardian recently which explained how in Britain victims of wrongful imprisonment are charged for B&B for the amount of time they spent…
A cure for cancer? Not if there’s no profit in it
A chemical called dichloroacetate (DCA) has proved effective in lab tests of killing most kinds of cancer dead. DCA is cheap, easy to produce and has no serious side effects.If…
Appeasements in a pod
Donald Rumsfeld recently compared critics of the Iraq war with the appeasers of Hitler’s Germany (original story apparently now taken down). Terrible thing, appeasement, but is it better or worse…
Peace in our time with bombs
Three weeks into the war in the Lebanon and the UN has finally agreed, after some intense wrangling about the specifics, to prevaricate some more. The process in the UN…
US State department reads this site
Perhaps. Yesterday I mocked the Israeli Injustice Minister Haim Ramon for suggesting the world had given its permission for Israel’s campaign in Lebanon. Lo! Today the US State Department dismissed…
More bombing for peace
In another demonstration of iron restraint that BBC online reader Steve Gross (see below) would have to be proud of, Israeli armed forces have killed four UN personnel. The attack…
Israel’s deadly restraint
One individual, a Steve Gross from the US quoted on the BBC website tells us, “Israel is acting with tremendous restraint, were they targeting civilian populations there would be thousands…
US citizens to pay for their evacuation from Lebanon
As Israeli warplanes batter Lebanon and the army gathers on the border ready to invade, thousands are leaving the country. Ships from several countries are lining up in Lebanese waters…
Britain arms killers of Britons
This week it was reported that arms sales from Britain to Israel have doubled in the last year. In the same week we read that an inquest in Britain returned…