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…
They invade and lay waste another country, destroy the lives of millions of Iraqis for generations to come, all on some trumped up drivel about “weapons of mass destruction.” Now they’re arguing over the real reason. Oil. It’s not enough that control of Iraq’s crude is being divvied up amongst the capitalists of the world.…
With current events this is a must read for any Westerner.
The Guardian: ‘Memoirs to reveal Dick Cheney thought Bush had gone soft on war on terror.’ Who knows what dark place we’d all be in if this man had become U.S. President.
Ahh, yes, there’s nothing like a little American exceptionalism to get one going in the morning. According to Reuters, Colonel Greg Julian, a U.S. military spokesman in Kabul, has been complaining that the Taliban is violating international law by parading a captured U.S. soldier on camera. It seems Colonel Julian didn’t get the memo: the…
Check out this video of war criminal Condoleezza Rice passing the buck when questioned by some students about torture. Student: Waterboarding. Is waterboarding torture? War crim: Er, the President instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations, under the Convention Against Torture. So that’s … and by the…
Jeremy Paxman: What is the difference between Zionism and racism? Peter Gooderham: Well we see the two as being quite distinct, um, Zionism is clearly a … Jeremy Paxman: Yeah what’s the difference? Peter Gooderham: Well Zionism is a political movement, um, relating to the establishment … Jeremy Paxman (queitly): So are some forms of…
Baghdad: City of walls: In this unique four-part film, award-winning Guardian foreign correspondent, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi journalist and photographer, takes us back to his home city of Baghdad. In the week of the sixth anniversary of the US-led invasion, this film, made by GuardianFilms for the Arab news network Al Jazeera, gives an insider’s…
It’s been a long time coming but two people, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, have finally put the numbers together and conclusively shown that modern social problems are substantially worse in those societies with wider gaps between rich and poor. Any cursory look at the world tells you this but these are the first people to show it scientifically.…
George Bush oversees torture and commits the “supreme war crime” of aggression, causing suffering and death for millions. Gets to go back to his ranch. One of the victims of these crimes throws a shoe at the perpetrator. Gets 3 years in jail. The Guardian did get one thing wrong in their report. Muntazar al-Zaidi is…