Germany Versus The CIA
30 Jan 2007
Germany has ordered the arrest of 13 people believed to be CIA agents over the alleged kidnapping of a Lebanese-born German national, in one of the best-known cases of US “renditions” of terror suspects. The prosecutor’s office in Munich, southern Germany said in a statement that the city’s administrative court had issued the arrest warrants on [...]

USA - Mass Protests Against The War
27 Jan 2007
Tens of thousands of protesters have demonstrated in Washington to demand the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. The rally comes days before Congress is to discuss President George W Bush’s new strategy for Iraq – including the despatch of 21,500 additional troops. The protesters, chanting “Bring the troops home”, were joined by Vietnam War-era protester, actress [...]

Japanese Defence Minister: ?Bush Was Wrong?
23 Jan 2007
Japan’s defense minister has said US President George W. Bush was wrong to invade Iraq and warned that Tokyo could not automatically renew its air force mission to the war-torn country. The rebuke from one of Washington’s closest foreign allies came hours after an embattled Bush used his annual State of the Union address to plead [...]

?There Is No War On Terror?
23 Jan 2007
The director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, put himself at odds with the home secretary and Downing Street last night by denying that Britain is caught up in a “war on terror” and calling for a “culture of legislative restraint” in passing laws to deal with terrorism. Sir Ken warned of the pernicious risk that [...]

USA?s Popularity Plummets
21 Jan 2007
The view of the US’s role in the world has deteriorated both internationally and domestically, a BBC poll suggests. The World Service survey, conducted in 25 nations including the US, found that three in four respondents disapproved of how Washington has dealt with Iraq. The majority of the 26,381 respondents also disapproved of the way five other [...]

US Murders 4-Year-Old Boy
8 Jan 2007
The US has carried out at least two air strikes in southern Somalia against Islamist fighters, who the US believes include members of an al-Qaeda cell. Witnesses told the BBC Somali service that an area near the town of Afmadow was being bombed on Tuesday. The area was one of those hit on Monday, with unconfirmed reports [...]

Well Done, George & Tony!
8 Jan 2007
The United Nations’ refugee body has appealed for $60m (£30.8m, 45m euros) in emergency aid for those fleeing violence in Iraq. One in eight of Iraqis have now left their homes, with up to 50,000 people leaving each month, the UNHCR said. It said the exodus was the largest long-term movement since the displacement of the Palestinians [...]

Guantanamo ?Abominable?
1 Jan 2007
Australia’s chief military prosecutor has described as “abominable” the treatment of an Australian man detained at Guantanamo Bay. Brigadier Lyn McDade said David Hicks – who has been at the US detention centre in Cuba for five years – was entitled to a fair trial as soon as possible. (Source: BBC News) Five years. Five years without trial, [...]

Hussein Dead
29 Dec 2006
Hussein meeting ally and fellow murderer Donald Rumsfled Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at a secure facility in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity. (Source: BBC News) I’m against the death penalty. I think any society that punishes murder with murder is fundamentally illogical and flawed. Also, there is always the question of [...]

The Real Criminals
24 Dec 2006
“To initiate a war of aggression … is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany – 1946 Forget about people fiddling a few quid on the dole, when are [...]

Archbishop: Iraq Worse Since Invasion
22 Dec 2006
Archbishop Williams The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the UK government of placing Christians in the Middle East at risk through its actions in Iraq. Dr Rowan Williams, head of the Anglican church, said there had been a growing number of attacks on Christians. Dr Williams told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme there was “no doubt” that life [...]

When WMDs Are GOOD!
4 Dec 2006
Tony Blair, earlier today. This in via roving reporter, Paul Sellars: Tony Blair has told MPs it would be “unwise and dangerous” for the UK to give up its nuclear weapons. The prime minister outlined plans to spend up to £20bn on a new generation of submarines for Trident missiles. Mr Blair said although the Cold War had ended [...]

Our Gift To Iraq
19 Nov 2006
“It’s appalling that, despite the well-documented problems with cluster weapons, the US and UK are dropping them on Iraq,” Andrew Purkis, chief executive of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund said in a statement. “We urge people to join our campaign to put pressure on governments to take responsibility for the clear up of these [...]

Two Mass-Murderers Meet
19 Nov 2006
A new doodle.

Our Glorious Leader
17 Nov 2006
A new doodle I’ve done. Click the pic.

Rumsfeld To Be Charged?
10 Nov 2006
Two mass-murderers meet. Donald Rumsfeld, who quit as US defence secretary this week, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. A complaint has been launched by the US-based Centre for Constitutional Rights, representing a Saudi detained in Cuba and 11 Iraqis held in Baghdad. German law allows the pursuit of cases [...]

Where America Leads, We Should Follow
8 Nov 2006
Democrats have gained the final seat in the battle for the US Senate, sealing their mid-term poll victory in both houses of Congress. Republican George Allen admitted defeat to his Democratic opponent, James Webb, in the close Virginia Senate race. The Democrats had already secured the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s elections. President George W Bush has pledged [...]

Moral Law?
16 Oct 2006
Cluster bombs – used in our war crimes against Iraq In the early hours, two days before the attack on Iraq began, two men in their 30s, Phil Pritchard and Toby Olditch, cut through the fence surrounding the air base at Fairford in Gloucestershire and made their way towards the B52 bombers which were stationed there. [...]

Chinese Murder Tibetan Refugees
14 Oct 2006
A group of ethnic Tibetans trying to flee Tibet were shot dead by Chinese troops on September 30, at a Himalayan pass near the border of China and Nepal (Tibet is an “autonomous region” of China, having been taken over by the PRC in the 1950s). Reports are emerging that Communist party officials have attempted [...]

US Guards Brag About Torture
13 Oct 2006
As the US rejected fresh British government criticism of Guantanamo Bay, an American soldier has made new charges that military guards brutally treated inmates at the controversial top security prison for terrorist suspects in south-eastern Cuba. In a sworn affidavit, Heather Cerveny, a 23-year-old Marine Corps sergeant, says she met several prison guards at a club [...]

Terry Lloyd: Murdered By US Troops
13 Oct 2006
THE family of a British journalist [Terry Lloyd] gunned down in Iraq called for the United States marines who opened fire on his convoy to face murder charges, and branded them “trigger-happy cowboys”. He was shot in the back by an Iraqi machinegun then, as he was evacuated in a makeshift ambulance, shot again in the [...]

Head Of British Army Wants Troops Out Of Iraq
11 Oct 2006
“We are in a Muslim country and Muslims’ views of foreigners in their country are quite clear. “As a foreigner, you can be welcomed by being invited in a country, but we weren’t invited certainly by those in Iraq at the time.” He added: “Whatever consent we may have had in the first place, may have turned [...]

Welcome To Wonderland
11 Oct 2006
This man, not Hussein, now holds the title ‘The Butcher Of Baghdad.’ The past few weeks have seen a fiesta of these rational, liberal people who dominate British mainstream politics. For them, the most basic forms of morality and shame, the kind you learn as a child, have no place in public life. On Sept. 27, [...]

What Every Front Page Today Should Say
11 Oct 2006
Above is a front page image from The Independent today. There is no other news item as important as this. And yet… Where is the coverage? I switched on the various news programmes this morning and it was the usual fluff about prisons, obesity and footballers. What the fuck is going on? Think of the 655,000 people [...]

655,000 Iraqis Murdered Since 2003
10 Oct 2006
The death toll among Iraqis as a result of the US-led invasion has now reached an estimated 655,000, a study in the Lancet medical journal reports today. The figure for the number of deaths attributable to the conflict – which amounts to around 2.5% of the population – is at odds with figures cited by the [...]