Last Straw

For those of you sub­jec­ted to the unfor­tu­nate idea of hav­ing Tony Blair as first pres­id­ent of the EU you’ll pleased to know the war crim­inal never came close. No Right Turn: The European Union has its first per­man­ent coun­cil pres­id­ent  —  and its not Tony Blair. Instead, EU lead­ers have chosen Bel­gian Prime Min­is­ter Her­man van Rompuy […]

Jac­qui Janes believes her son is dead because the war in Afgh­anistan is under-resourced. He’s not. He’s dead because he was fight­ing an unjust war. The stated aim of the inva­sion of Afgh­anistan was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members. On 14 Octo­ber, 2001, the Taliban pub­licly offered to hand over Osama […]

As part of nego­ti­ations with Iran over nuc­lear fuel Mohamed ElBaradei of the Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency recently pro­posed that Iran trans­fer about 70 per­cent of its low-enriched uranium to Rus­sia for fur­ther enrich­ment by the end of this year, then to France for con­ver­sion into fuel plates for med­ical use, effect­ively neg­at­ing its use in alleged […]

With cur­rent events this is a must read for any Westerner.

‘No cred­ible evid­ence’ of Ira­nian nuc­lear weapons, says UN inspector: The UN’s chief weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, said today he had seen “no cred­ible evid­ence” that Iran is devel­op­ing nuc­lear weapons, reject­ing Brit­ish intel­li­gence alleg­a­tions that a weapons pro­gramme has been going on for at least four years. Any­one sur­prised by this is just a fucking […]

No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT government’s oppos­i­tion to a new bill that would make it a national crim­inal offence for any New Zea­l­and polit­ical leader to “plan, pre­pare, ini­ti­ate or execute an act of aggres­sion” in viol­a­tion of the UN Charter. … when Wayne Mapp says he doesn’t want our for­eign policy to be subject […]

Fareed Zakaria writ­ing for New­s­week: … over the last five years, senior Ira­nian offi­cials at every level have repeatedly asser­ted that they do not intend to build nuc­lear weapons. Pres­id­ent Mah­moud Ahmad­ine­jad has quoted the regime’s found­ing father, Ayatol­lah Ruhol­lah Khomeini, who asser­ted that such weapons were “un-Islamic.” The country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatol­lah Ali Khamenei, […]

Groups of people all over the world call­ing them­selves “news organ­isa­tions,” such as The Times, con­tinue to spread myths about Mah­moud Ahmad­ine­jad, such as that he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” or that he denies the Nazi Holo­caust. In the mean time the Israeli Deputy Prime Min­is­ter has been quoted as […]

War Crim Tony Blair has been awar­ded a prize from Zion­ist organ­isa­tion Dan David Found­a­tion, amount­ing to $1 mil­lion. Pre­sum­ably for his efforts to ensure Israel can con­tinue its eth­nic cleans­ing of Palestinians.

It sur­prises me to the degree that many people lose their moral com­pass over Israel. We’ve come to expect it from Israelis; cur­rently they’re prom­ising to pro­tect their war crim­in­als from inter­na­tional pro­sec­u­tion over their recent mas­sacre of Gazans. But, then there’s people like Mark Thompson, the BBC’s dir­ector gen­eral, who has been instru­mental in the […]