In response to CHINA THREAT RISING? Defense Tech has been following the latest China scare with CHINA THREAT? NOT! which in turn falls back on the evidence gathered by Jeffrey Lewis.
The picture that is painted by mainstream media is written off as paranoid fantasies.
The New York Times’ description of the intelligence report isn’t very, [...]
Continue Reading April 12th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Code Pink strikes again. John Bolton strangely unamused. Doesn’t even wiggle his moustache.
Three women peace activists interrupted today�s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on John Bolton�s nomination as US Ambassador to the UN. They held up banners reading �NO Bolton, YES UN,� �Bolton = Nuclear Proliferation,� and �Diplomat, Not Bully, Please!� and urged Senators to [...]
Continue Reading April 12th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The Friday incident over a KLM jet refused entry into US airspace is raising serious questions in Europe. The two unidentified passengers around whom all of this is centred took the next plane via England back to Saudi Arabia. No other authority, in Europe or the Middle East had anything to object apparently.
Upon examining [...]
Continue Reading April 11th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The situation is chaotic at best and the US is of course betting against the people. What else is new.
Leftist and indigenous groups are now calling on Congress to impeach Gutiérrez, whose economic policies, which have thrown open the economy and deregulated the state, are backed by the United States and the International Monetary [...]
Continue Reading April 9th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Guantanamo stories have spilled out in court papers, and it’s not a pretty read.
A U.S. college-educated detainee asks plaintively in one: "Is it possible to see the evidence in order to refute it?"
Furthermore …
In another transcript, the unidentified president of a U.S. military tribunal bursts out: "I don’t care about international law. I don’t [...]
Continue Reading April 9th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Not much of a surprise as the reforms would among other things weaken the international stranglehold of the United States.
Specifically, the US fears the expansion of the Security Council, and the prospect of slowly losing the only means by which the US is able to veto and control world development. Maybe it is premature [...]
Continue Reading April 8th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Did you ever wonder what happened to Sgrena and her story after they both vanished from the headlines or were brutally massacred by right-wing pundits? Well, Naomi Klein did a follow-up last week which did reveal of few interesting tidbits. For example, Sgrena and indeed the evidence so far points to the car being fired [...]
Continue Reading April 7th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Besides laying siege to scientific theory, common sense and liberalism in general, quasi-religious groups have also targeted same-sex unions all over the US. With the latest state to fall being Kansas. This brings the total count up to 18 states if I’m not mistaken, with more to follow.
I reckon this could be called "neo-conservatism [...]
Continue Reading April 6th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
According to a report by the British House Foreign Affairs Committee, the US involvement in Iraq is clumsy and counterproductive, failing to meet its own agenda by applying too much force and too little political involvement.
U.S. troops in Iraq are provoking civilians and hampering rebuilding with an excessive use of force, British lawmakers said in [...]
Continue Reading April 6th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
More from the British Foreign Affairs Committee, now via BBC.
In its latest report looking at UK policy in the war on terror, the parliamentary foreign affairs committee has called for straight answers from the government over any British role in the highly controversial US "extraordinary rendition" policy.
The committee expressed frustration at the lack of clarity [...]
Continue Reading April 6th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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