Mama was right
mhsutton When my mum called Tony Blair an ‘out and out’ liar and his administration ‘morally bankrupt’ , I was a little reticent to join in and thought for a second…
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Who Pays?
Israel launched hostilities against Hezbollah in Lebanon, destroyed homes, infrastructure and brought human devastation. Who paid to rebuild shattered buildings?Who paid to rebuild shattered lives? Then Israel had a lock-in…
Gutless Government Part 1
I think someone changed the rules while I slept or perhaps I missed the class on Demo-Capitalism. Within a free market economy ,as the US and the UK claim to…
Too Bad Katrina was not Iraqi
Had Hurricane Katrina been Iraqi or Afghan or any number of nationalities with some tedious relation to al-qaeda, this President would know what to do. But it wasn’t , nor…
Paradox of Our Time
Message from George Carlin The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings butshorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, buthave less, we…
Bare Faced Impunity
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq. These are places , notable but not unique, where America has committed violations to human rights and universal decency. Reserving their right to ‘defend’…
Queuing to leave the country
The UK High Commission in Lagos, Nigeria processes over 17,000 visa applications. Its the busiest UK visa office in the world. Statistics from other popular destinations paint a similarpicture –…
Crimes against Humanity vs Genocide
By the time you finish reading this, perhaps a child would be dead in Darfur or a woman would be raped by the Janjaweed, certainly a climate of fear and…
Noise about Nazis
There has been a huge uproar about recent images of the English royal, Prince Harry. Third in the throne queue, Prince Harry appeared at a friend’s costume shindig dressed as…
Iraqi Elections
Any kind of election was what was required in Iraq. Any kind of election would satisfy the requirements of its main organisaers. As widely predicted, most Shias voted and most…