Month: July 2004

Growing international demands to suspend the use of cluster munitions, which scatter hundreds of small “bomblets” over a wide area and are blamed for thousands of civilian deaths around the world, appear to be falling on deaf ears among the governments that stockpile them. “The war in Iraq has sharpened the call for action on … Continue reading “Clusters of Death”

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) Boris Tadic won the second round of the Serbian presidential elections Sunday, beating Radical rival Tomislav Nikolic by 8 percentage points, or some 250,000 votes. The Empire, which openly cheered … Continue reading “Jackals and Jackasses”

Washington’s Foreign Policy I just want to express my profound gratitude for Antiwar.com. While I don’t agree with everything everybody says. I agree strongly that we had no business sending troops to Iraq and that this administration lied about WMDs. I am a patriotic American and would die for America – only when AMERICA’s borders … Continue reading “”