Harvard Law '82 - Gonzales Scorned in Protest
The Harvard Law class of 1982 was reminded today that its most notorious alumnus is responsible for the shaming of America. Students protested Gonzales as he made an unannounced visit to Cambridge to...
View ArticleMy Queen Speaks in America - theft, violence, slavery and profit
Queen Elizabeth II made a speech in Jamestown, Virginia, yesterday to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of America as a European conquest. I'm pretty sure it went right over your heads, so...
View Article'The Sicilian Expedition': a cautionary tale from ancient Greece
John Fletcher, the playwright, sent me a heads up and I listened last night as "The Sicilian Expedition" aired on BBC Radio 3. He blogged on Huffington Post when it first aired in 2005: Athens. The...
View ArticleIran to attack British nuke plants? Or more fear porn?
The right wing Associated Press and Fox News are reporting this morning that Iran is developing plans to attack British nuclear power plants in the event of strikes against Iran.The source for this...
View ArticleGore in The Guardian - he speaks for me
I'll just use the beginning and end of the piece. Read it all.The pursuit of "dominance" in foreign policy led the Bush administration to ignore the UN, to do serious damage to our most important...
View ArticleMore Politicised Intel - this time on China
The Bushistas are editing reality again. Today the Pentagon publishes The China Military Power Report which it owed to Congress in March. The administration is hoping that putting it out on a Friday...
View ArticleIn memoriam: Buddy 'Doc' Hughie (for Soonergrunt)
In Memoriam: SGT Buddy James 'Doc' Hughie 23 October 1981 - 19 February 2007I haven't channeled Soonergrunt for a while, but I am going to do so today to remember a friend of his who died in...
View ArticleInformants and Instigators
When the news of the JFK plotters came out, I commented: Look for the FBI informant/instigator. Today we see in the Washington Post and other papers:The ringleader believed the informant "had been...
View ArticleBandar Bush Fingered In $2 Billion Bribery Probe
The BBC reports that Saudi Prince Bandar - known to Dubya as "Bandar Bush" - was the recipient of maybe $2 billion dollars in bribes payments from BAe, the UK's biggest arms manufacturer, under secret...
View ArticleBandar Bush the Black Ops Bagman
Old CIA hands like Bush 41 and Robert Gates had a problem in the early 1980s. Congress had outlawed CIA funded deathsquads, assassinations, false flag operations and other methods beloved of black ops...
View ArticleBrer Putin's Tar Baby
Brer Putin done put a Iranian Tar-Baby in the road. He gonna lay low and watch Brer Dubya punch his way into the quagmire.The Tar-Baby"‘Ef you don’t take off dat hat en tell me howdy, I’m gwine ter...
View ArticleEU and Young Americans: USA Greatest Threat to Security
Tomorrow we wave the flag. Today let's look at the reality of how America is perceived.The latest FT Harris Survey makes disturbing reading for those still delusional enough to think the USA's conduct...
View ArticleCelebrate! Constitutional government restored and freedom!
We celebrate here today in Britain. We celebrate constitutional accountability for government.The Brown cabinet is dull, capable and accountable. In response to the terrorist car bombs, Brown is...
View ArticleWhose DNA did Jesus have? Where was the family in Bethlehem?
These Bible Action Figures have me wondering something I've wondered for a while. Why wasn't Jesus a chick? Even if you buy the whole Holy Ghost impregnation schtick and Virgin Mary stuff, you've got...
View ArticleHow Many Dead Iranians in a 'Holocaust'?
Will the word 'holocaust' be used to describe the deaths of hundreds of thousands, even millions, of Iranians targeted for extermination by the Bush administration and the American military? Perhaps....
View ArticleCSI: Due Process is for Losers
I just watched my last episode of CSI. I sort of went off it about a year ago when I realised each episode was stoking fear. Fear that if you have sex you'll be killed. Fear that if you live in the...
View ArticleIran replacing dollar "with more credible currencies"
Iran has been gradually moving away from the dollar ever since sanctions were imposed. It accelerated its efforts this year, informing its biggest clients that from September it would require payment...
View ArticleWe celebrated terrorism last night!
Yes, it was Guy Fawkes Night. This special holiday in Britain celebrates terrorism against the government and promotes the burning of Catholic effigies on bonfires. On November 5, 1605, an English...
View ArticleThe dollar has lost 1/3 of its value
And its spiral ever lower is accelerating.From FT Alphaville:We’ve posted this before - but as the ailing US currency drops through $1.47 against the euro and $2.10 against sterling, it merits a second...
View ArticleThe Bush Who Stole Florida Teachers' Christmas
Jeb Bush was one of 3 people managing the investments of the Florida State Board of Administration. The SBA runs an investment pool of municipalities' cash and also the state's $170 billion pension...
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