The actual investigation is not yet over but apparently the bulk of information has been leaked by someone at the Pentagon. It was reported already a couple of days ago that the Italians on the commission were reluctant to sign off on the data and conclusion. But it gets worse …
But according to Pentagon officials [...]
Continue Reading April 27th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Via Global Policy Forum. Last week Kofi Annan blasted the US and UK over their part in the Iraqi oil snafu. The mainstream media did not provide much coverage however.
Britain and America reacted angrily yesterday to accusations by the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, that they were partly to blame for the oil-for-food scandal [...]
Continue Reading April 23rd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Via Global Policy Forum. Things are not as rosy as some have us believe.
For the third time in nine months, the Bush administration has redrafted its project to rebuild Iraq, forcing planners to cancel more of the water, sewage and power plants that were part of the grand American design to transform the shattered country. [...]
Continue Reading April 23rd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Though perhaps not what she had hoped. Total Misunderstanding? Can Condoleezza Rice speak Russian?
Rice made several unprecedented statements. She, in fact, admitted that the US will start to inspect Russian nuclear facilities. The Secretary of State demanded Putin resignation in 2008. She also hinted that Byelorussia is to expect �Orange Revolution� and Russia �a bright [...]
Continue Reading April 22nd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Via AP …
Insurgents brought down a Russian-made helicopter carrying 11 civilians with missile fire north of the capital Thursday and said they captured and shot to death the lone crew member who survived. The dead from the crash included six American bodyguards for U.S. diplomats. The helicopter had three Bulgarian crewmembers, according to the [...]
Continue Reading April 22nd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Via Reuters …
Iraqi forces searched a town near Baghdad Monday for evidence of dozens of Shi’ites said to have been taken hostage by Sunni militants, a claim government officials said was exaggerated for political ends. Five brigades of Iraqi troops from the Interior Ministry’s special commando unit spread out through Madaen, 25 miles southeast [...]
Continue Reading April 18th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Human Rights Watch accuses Sweden of hypocrisy …
The Swedish government has come under fire from international watchdog Human Rights Watch for its handling of the cases of two men deported from Sweden to Egypt by the CIA in 2001. There is evidence that the Egyptians, Ahmed Agiza and Mohammad al-Zari, were tortured. Julia Hall, [...]
Continue Reading April 17th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Director, actor and Python Terry Jones smites the US in his latest commentary for the Guardian. The topic is the utter state of deprivation that has befallen Iraqi children, first due to a decade of sanctions and now lately the US invasion and the following manhandling.
A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva [...]
Continue Reading April 13th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Via Agonist. The US is ignoring development issues and spending too much on its own armed forces says world leading economist.
Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and one of the world’s best-known economists, argues in a new book that the world could be just 20 years away from dragging 1.1 billion people [...]
Continue Reading April 12th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The New Yorker has a take on the US Dollar and why it is still afloat, although devalued, despite any real changes in policy.
The dollar�s decline, grim as it seems, has so far had little impact on the everyday lives of most Americans. To be sure, there are new burdens: the price of truffles is [...]
Continue Reading April 12th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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