Israel and Palestine: Biden’s ethical dilemma
Our hearts go out to Joe Biden and his whole team as they struggle to decide whether there’s an ethical issue to them supplying the weapons that have enabled the…
Genocide by numbers
At the start of the current Gaza conflict, western intelligence agencies put the number of Hamas fighters at 20 to 25,000. AI systems used by Israel’s military came up with…
Witless in Gaza
The US and friends continue in the same witless arse-bound spiral in their support of the current Israeli genocide of the people of Palestine while finding that same genocidal behaviour…
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…
Bush’s faulty intelligence
So Bush finally admits what the rest of knew before the war, that the intelligence about Saddam’s WMD was wrong. Here wrong should be read as ‘made up’, but don’t…
Suffer yet more little children
Suffer yet more little children …The first casualties of war are the innocents Below you will find two short meditations about the killing of innocent people, particularly children, just because…
Witless in Gaza
The Israeli army has just withdrawn from Gaza after a 16 day operation that has left a hundred Palestinians dead — many of them civilians — and which has destroyed…
Tessa Hewitt apologises for Iraq intelligence errors
Blair concedes there may have been no Iraqi WMDs, US inspectors confirm sameSo those tens of thousands of people died by mistake. Well, that’s all right then, at least there…