UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix on why Britain should not spent 100 billion pounds updating its Trident nuclear deterrent. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/26/hans-blix-trident-abandon-britain-nuclear
Category: Iraq
Clinton and Bush
Bill Clinton and George Bush reveal their friendship when they appear together on TV. So it seems, at least. Perhaps they will cause world peace together but something is odd about this caucus of ex presidents. It is as though Clinton has embraced the devil vs the rehabilitation of Bush. The presidential campaign costs 3 …
Syria and Iraq
In the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/middleeast/chemical-weapons-wont-be-used-in-rebellion-syria-says.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120724 - it is evident that Syria has a large cachet of WMD. Why? Well Saddam's stock must have gone somewhere when sabrés were rattled. Syria is all that is left of the common Ba-athist political party that fell with Saddam in Iraq. What is Ba'athism? It is an Islamic form of Socialism. …
Ron Paul
The most conservative politician in America is not a Tea Party irrationally motivated soccer mum. It is a rationalist who argued against the Iraq war, who predicted the Global credit meltdown. He also opposes welfare and taxation. In other words he may be the only actual conservative candidate. The others invest in foreign adventurism, inflation …
Freedom
UK Police have had an EEC ruling against stop and search activities.In the meantime, a Muslim group has been denied their right of protest and have been labelled a terrorist group. This seems a popularist measure by the Brown Government increasingly clutching at straws to find votes in the upcoming election Labour seems destined to …
Afghanistan worsens
As Dennis Kuchinich reads his charges for impeachment of GW Bush and Dick Cheney, the folly of their actions is starting to kill more Americans in Afghanistan than Iraq, for the last month at least. This is partly due to "the surge" in Iraq reducing insurgency by killing more "terrorists" and others, but also to …
Out of Reach
The rhetoric inside America is that of bring back our boys and girls. This film shows what they are doing, how effective they are occupying a foreign land that seems embarressed by the stupidity of their invaders, when asked if he was scared, the quietly seated local shakes his head.The trouble with fighting an unjust …
The Web of Deception
Robert Fisk: Caught in the deadly web of the internet - Independent Online Edition > Robert FiskCharacter assasination has taken on a whole new meaning as the "war on terror" progresses. The Dept of Homeland Security has a massive budget for spying upon the activities of potential terrorist threats. That is a reaction to the …
Iraq March
The march at Majaf instigated by the Sadrist Shiite majority demonstrated against the foreign forces occupying Iraq. The political capital enjoyed by Bush and Blair is evaporating rapidly. The naked ambition to control the world's oil supply appears the apparent goal in seeking to control outcomes in the Middle East. It is a rational strategy …
Budget, American Style
Bush created a budget balancing act based on increased spending, mainly military, of three trillion dollars. A trillion is 1000 billions, using the American system of dealing with numbers that are simply too big. 1,000,000 is our familiar million. 1,000,000,000 (one billion) is becoming a more commonplace concept of the 21st Century - and already …