Apologies Galore
mhsutton Sorry does not seem to be the hardest word in Washington these days. First we had Mr Bush apologise, then Gen. Kimmet. Next in line Donald Rumsfeld sat before a…
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A Head Unbowed.
I must confess that with the dizzying number of causes, campaigns and events in the world to be active about – enough to keep a brigade of activists busy for…
Insignificant Flim Flam.
A storm is blowing this week after a Swedish business magazine claimed that Bill Gates was no longer the world’s richest person. Not only has Mr Gates been apparently been…
Back in the Fold (a.k.a Business as Usual)
With a few master strokes – principally paying off the billions in compensation to the families of the victims of the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie and renouncing its ‘advanced’…
Calm and Restraint
‘… we appeal for calm and restraint…’ – part of US statement on Israel’s assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Just as it seems things could not get any worse, events…
A Preoccupation With War
No matter how hard they try, it would seem the specter of launching an unjust war, invasion and the sustaining of an occupation refuses to be shifted. But it is…
Of Hornets and Terrorists
More blood in Baghdad, more suicide bombers and more raids against the occupying forces. It is billed as Shia on Sunni violence (or Sunni on Shia). But these two groups…
Crimes of the Elected , Sins of the Electorate
It is impossible not to feel revulsion at the bombing of the rush hour trains in Madrid. Ten simultaneous explosions ripped through trains and stations killing hundreds of people, injuring…
Enough is enough
The Guantanamo Five – five British men held in Guantanamo Cuba (formerly Camp X-Ray) have now been released to British authorities and returned home after two long years of being…
Haiti Voodoo
A lot of speculation surrounds the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; popular reports suggest he resigned the presidency and is now in exile in the Central African Republic with his…