Archive for October, 2005
What a SURPRISE. Not. And only a few weeks ago, Aziz was attached to a similar claim that he would testify against Saddam. Now that is also debunked. The US must be pretty desperate to come up with this BS …
Independent - Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister of Iraq, has denied telling investigators [...]
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October 31st, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Sometimes you need a reality based story to counter the propaganda being unwittingly peddled by many of the corporate and government players. It turns out that Iran has a few tweaks of liberty and democracy that even most western nation states cannot claim.
Independent via Boing Boing - (3) More than 3,600 Iranians have been killed [...]
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October 31st, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Remember that student, Joel Henry Hinrichs, who killed himself with a homemade bomb? Remember the allegations that were flying around at the time? Remember how all of those turned out to be wrong? I guess some people are trying not to. That is why articles like this are so important, lest the right wing lynch [...]
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October 30th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Yokosuka is getting a replacement. And the unholy alliance between Japan and the US is affirmed once more, much to the peril of the region.
AP via Agonist - United States and Japanese officials have agreed to allow the Navy to station a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan for the first time, the Navy announced Thursday.
Though [...]
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October 28th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
If you think that is a cliché heading I’ll let you know it is not of my making. I happened to come upon an editorial in The Washington Times by a Tony Blankley dated September 12. Better late than never I suppose. Apparently the editorial-page editor has published his new book, tritely entitled “The West’s [...]
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October 27th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Since Israel is so eager to have the UN make a move on Iran, maybe they could start with complying with the resolutions that they have stacked against them. Ahmadinejad’s quotations, if they are even to be construed as more, may be unprecedented, but so is being able to snub UN resolutions with impunity. It [...]
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October 27th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Why is Japan the only region where Airbus can’t quite make it? Care to guess?
MAINICHI - Japan’s top three manufacturers have so far rejected offers from Airbus of contract work on the planned A350 jets, citing their order commitments to rival Boeing Co., Airbus Chief Executive Gustav Humbert said Wednesday.
Airbus, based in Toulouse, France, controls [...]
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October 27th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Watching America - However solid and impressive the growth of the American market, such success has nonetheless allowed the development of what could be termed a “social anxiety.” According to professor Michel Aglietta, such anxiety results from the system “transferring the whole of the insecurity to those members of society least capable of assuming such [...]
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October 26th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
It seems it took a few months for the US regime to conjure up more forged documents and “confessions” from their motley crew of former Iraqi statesmen. But here it is, the possible rematch between George Galloway and Norm Coleman’s merry men. The real question is what is new in this allegation and what was [...]
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October 25th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Kurt Nimmo dissects the blatant lies being peddled by the US regime regarding Saddam’s “atrocities”, which seem to grow more ominous by the day. Specifically, Karen Hughes blatantly lied to students while on a good-will tour to Indonesia, claiming that Saddam had “murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people using poison gas.”
Just the other [...]
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October 25th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
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