Archive for July, 2007
This is an interview with President George Bush that was apparently banned from being aired on American television. Evidently, the journalist was not quite slavish enough.
Filed under: Media, News and politics, US, Videos | 14 Comments
Anarchists Against The Wall
I’ve been asked to forward this press release from the courageous Israeli peace group, Anarchists Against The Wall. So here ’tis:
* * * * PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY * * * *
Dear friend,
The mounting legal cost of the joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle against the occupation is forcing us to send this urgent appeal for funds. We are [...]
Filed under: Activism, Israeli / Palestinian | 7 Comments
Tags: Anarchy
Iraqi resistance update
Via lenin, the latest Coalition stats (.pdf) on the Iraqi insurgency:
Click to enlarge – the most important message of the graph above is that the Iraqi resistance continues to overwhelmingly target Coalition troops, as opposed to civilians. Read the full post here.
Filed under: Iraq, News and politics, US | Leave a Comment
Tags: occupation, resistance
Children behind bars
“I was arrested at Huwwara checkpoint by the Israeli army. I was transferred to Ariel settlement where they beat me while I was blindfolded on my face. Afterwards I was transferred to Salem interrogation compound. I was beaten and position abused for 10 hours in the cold weather. During the interrogation, the interrogator asked me [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, Torture | 7 Comments
Tags: children, Human Rights
…except for the overwhelming majority of Americans and Iraqis, of course. I was reading the transcript of last night’s CNN/YouTube Democratic Presidential candidates debate, and I came across this from Sen. Joe Biden:
“Anderson, you’ve been there. You know we can’t just pull out now. Let’s get something straight. It’s time to start to tell the [...]
Filed under: Iraq, News and politics, US | 17 Comments
Tags: Democracy, International & Foreign Policy
Who’s up for bombing Iran, then?
The Economist has just published a disgraceful editorial, purportedly rejecting an attack on Iran but in fact doing everything it can to legitimise one.
Jérôme Guillet has already dealt with the article fairly comprehensively, and to his credit the foreign editor of The Economist, Peter David, showed up to defend the editorial, here. My response [...]
Filed under: Iran, Media, News and politics, US, WMD | Leave a Comment
Tags: International & Foreign Policy
John Pilger – Freedom Next Time
Filed under: Iraq, Media, US, Videos | 2 Comments
Tags: John Pilger
June saw the highest number of attacks against Coalition forces in Iraq since May 2003, according to recently obtained Pentagon figures (via lenin). June saw an average of 177.8 attacks a day, up 46% from last year. Evidently, the whole “hearts and minds” thing isn’t going to plan. That is certainly the view of a [...]
Filed under: Iraq, News and politics, US | Leave a Comment
Tags: Terrorism
Quote Of The Day
“I think you’d have to find some way to talk to Hamas. I don’t want to insert myself into what Secretary [of State Condoleezza] Rice is doing or what the president is doing. But they are not going to go away. And we have to remember that they enjoy considerable support among the Palestinian people. [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Quote of the Day, US | 4 Comments
Tags: Colin Powell, Hamas, International & Foreign Policy
A Look In The Mirror
Also published at UK Watch, here.
The past week has borne witness to that vanishingly rare event: a bout of media self-examination. We’ve seen major news outlets like the BBC and Channel Four step back and reflect on the quality and accuracy of their output, even going so far as to publicly apologise for mistakes that [...]
Filed under: Iran, Iraq, Israeli / Palestinian, Media, News and politics, UK, Venezuela | 9 Comments
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