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…
Not an unprecedented pile of bollocks
The news is full of the foiled airliner attack plot in the UK. The possible attack has as usual been followed up by an all-out assault on common sense and…
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…
Australia pulls peacekeepers out of Lebanon — a told you so moment?
Yesterday in this space, I speculated that Israel’s apparently deliberate and definitely fatal targeting of UN personnel in Lebanon might have been designed to force their withdrawal. Today, Australia announced…
US terror plot revealed
George Bush has revealed how he and the neocons have hijacked the USA and are looking for a tall building to fly it into.
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…
Bush sets out strategy for victory
Today George Bush unveiled his “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq”, his mission statement for ending the war. The main points of the plan are: The plan is a clear…
Every day, in every way …
An interesting day for news. Arctic ice coverage is 20 percent below average for this time of year. Climate change deniers will no doubt be telling us soon it is…
Bush weighs in for intelligent design
President George Bush said yesterday that intelligent design should be taught in schools although he himself shows no sign of any.
London like Baghdad
A week after the bombings in London, this is a good moment for a bit of a think. The carnage visited on the city is but a small reflection of…