According to New Scientist, the US has cut off the multimillion-dollar research project aimed at determining, once and for all, the effects of the infamous herbicide Agent Orange, widely used for defoliation during the American-Vietnam war. And by the way, that’s right, it’s not the "Vietnam war" any more. In case anyone is wondering .. [...]
Continue Reading March 22nd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Partly thanks to the scope of Fox’s fair and unbalanced "news" and the desire to scapegoat, people are taking Donald Rumsfeld’s rant at face value. Instead of granting that the capacity and mission of the neo-con illuminati stops at propaganda, lies and fear mongering (i.e. what they call building a moral society free of liberal [...]
Continue Reading March 21st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Secretary General Kofi Annan will propose a series of reforms and overhauls in the way the UN operates. Opposition will undoubtedly be long and difficult as they US is still bent on proving by example that the UN is useless. And in doing so, it would be counterproductive to allow the organization to reform or [...]
Continue Reading March 21st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The Herald: "Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, was charged yesterday with violating the terms of his release from prison by speaking to foreign journalists and trying to visit the West Bank. The indictment by Israeli authorities against the recently-elected rector of Glasgow University came days after he was interviewed by The Herald. Mr Vanunu [...]
Continue Reading March 18th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The Local: "Mehdi Ghezali has announced through his lawyer that he intends to sue US Secretary of State for Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, for damages. The Swede spent over two years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba under suspicion of membership of the al-Qaida terror network. No concrete evidence was ever produced and he [...]
Continue Reading March 18th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The US seems to be bent on dissing the environment. It was hinted that the American regime would block Tony Blair’s G8 initiative combating illegal logging in the world’s threatened rainforests. Not surprisingly, powerful industry lobbyists in the US have resisted. They think that they are above the international opinion. And that they, despite being [...]
Continue Reading March 17th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Yes indeed, the American elite sure knows how to pick the bad apples from the crop and place them strategically in high places. First it was John Bolton and now Paul Wolfowitz. There are those that have complained for decades about how the US runs the World Bank (and the IMF) to further their own [...]
Continue Reading March 16th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The debate rages over why they are going to do it. Plain and simple, it’s not easy to justify that a country, which reaps no real benefits from the operation and with a population increasingly against further involvement, should stay. Just because Italy got involved doesn’t mean they are in it for life, does it? [...]
Continue Reading March 16th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky and his colleagues at the University of Western Australia published a study in the March issue of Psychological Science, detailing how Iraq war stories played tricks on the mind. The study, based on 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, is a quite fascinating account of how beliefs and memories are [...]
Continue Reading March 15th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Kosovo ex-PM denies Hague charges. That came as a bit of a surprise. Not that I have bothered to examine the list of wanted war criminals but I always felt that the Yugoslavian conflict was handled in a very biased and unprofessional way. Especially when it came to Kosovo where there was a great [...]
Continue Reading March 14th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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