Month: October 2003

The epochal Israeli bombing inside Syria on October 05 has practically rendered the 1974 Disengagement Agreement between the two countries irrelevant. By bombing the purportedly ‘militant training camp’, as portrayed by Israel, near Damascus, the latest act of antagonism flustered the already frantic world media, who were struck as much as the Syrians by the … Continue reading “The March on Damascus: A New Epoch Unfolds”

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Remember Ali Abbas, the cute little tyke whose arms were blown off by his American “liberators”? He’s calling down vengeance on the heads of his tormentors: “Ali Abbas, the 13-year-old boy who lost both his arms and much of his family in the bombing of Iraq, says he hopes the pilot responsible will be ‘burned … Continue reading “A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE EMPIRE”

The war in Iraq by no means ceased on May 1 when President Bush announced the end of major hostilities. It simply entered a new and ominous phase. It is the war that keeps on killing. Not least, it keeps on killing American troops. As long as U.S. body bags keep piling up, this war … Continue reading “The Iraq Dilemma:
An Illegitimate Occupation”

The lying cretins who gave us the Iraq war aren’t content that our soldiers are sitting ducks for terrorists throughout the Middle East – now they’re using them as props in a propaganda campaign designed to convince the American people that “progress” is being made. As the [Washington] Olympian reports: “Letters from hometown soldiers describing … Continue reading “FAKE ‘GOOD NEWS’ FROM IRAQ”

I spent this past week smiling and clinking wine glasses with a multi-millionaire from the town of GuangYan – roughly two hours north of the capital by highway. This particular boss is one of a breed of new rich that rule the “small” towns and cities outside of the major hub cities such as Beijing, … Continue reading “Chinese Big Bosses Rule – with the Backing of Beijing”

The misnamed National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is nothing more than a costly program that takes US taxpayer funds to promote favored politicians and political parties abroad. What the NED does in foreign countries, through its recipient organizations the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI), would be rightly illegal in the … Continue reading “National Endowment for Democracy: Paying to Make Enemies of America”

The more commercial television news you watch, the more wrong you are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq War and its aftermath, according to a major new study released in Washington on Thursday. And the more you watch the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News channel, in particular, the more likely it is that … Continue reading “We Report, You Get It Wrong”

Reading the New York Post Letters page is like smoking opium, without the body high. It seems so surreal, so removed from reality, that I wonder if the letter writers are real people or simply constructs. The Letters from 7 October, “Israel’s Right to Take the War to Damascus”, were the first I’d read in … Continue reading “Israel Defends Itself”

The U.S. government is launching a public relations blitz designed to show the American people that they shouldn’t believe the evidence right in front of their eyes, because our success (or lack of it) in Iraq is all in how you look at it. The President has complained that the “good news” about Iraq has … Continue reading “US WAR PROPAGANDA IS PATHETIC”