Last Straw

Apparently banned by the Norwegian government this catchy tune by Gatas Parlament begins with a news clip stating that the Kill Him Now campaign, “a non-religious movement collecting money for a bounty on Bush’s head,” has raised enough money to hire a hitman. Heh. It spills out from there into a scathing polemic of U.S. imperialism, moving on to challenge listeners to get up and dance the Anti-American Dance, burn the U.S. flag, and burn down the U.S. embassy in honour of St. Hans. Well… got my head nodding. You can watch an english subtitled version over at ifilm.com.

Paul Robinson, of The Spectator, analyses the latest bogeyman of the power-elite, terrorism, and concludes, “Far from being more dangerous, the world is safer now than ever before; and far from being an ever-growing problem, terrorism has been in sharp decline for over a decade.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is charging that U.S. Army documents obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act show that the mistreatment of detainees in Iraq was much more widespread than the government has admitted, including sworn statements that soldiers were told in August 2003 to ”take the detainee(s) out back and beat the fuck out of them.” Surprise surprise. Matt Welch, of Reason magazine, explains why we’ll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos.

Robin Cook explains why why American neocons are out for Kofi Annan’s blood, and Khaled Amayreh writes from Ramallah about the burgeoning rate of pogrom-like attacks by messianic Israeli terrorists on defenseless Palestinian villagers throughout the West Bank.