Noam Chomsky debated Alan Dershowitz at Harvard yesterday. Obviously, Dershowitz soon regressed to shouting and personal abuse. Some thoughts over at Metafilter. Even if one agrees with Dershowitz, no one can say that his style of debate is either eloquent nor decisive. Better luck in the jeering court room.
I’d still like to see Finkelstein debate [...]
Continue Reading November 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Infowar indeed. This it but the really explicit example of the sort of Hollywood-inspired nonsense the US has us all living in.
LATimes - As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the [...]
Continue Reading November 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
So the riots in France didn’t prod anyone in the right direction. In fact it seems they served only to prove what people think they already knew. And now comes a hard hitting slew of new laws that are supposed to, well, bring law-and-order.
Guardian - France Tightens Controls on Immigration - Authorities will increase enforcement [...]
Continue Reading November 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
If they are ever able to confirm which nations that would be. The EU is making a stand but there is yet another snag.
Reuters - Any European Union state that secretly hosted a CIA prison faces loss of its voting rights, and Washington should punish any violations that occurred, an EU commissioner said on Monday.
Franco [...]
Continue Reading November 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Ramsey Clark is in the news again. Though I believe he was in contact with the Hussein legal defence team already a year ago. Nevertheless, Ramsey Clark is the endangered American you’d like to see more of. The American who looks to his own country first and others second. That sees the hypocrisy of finger-pointing [...]
Continue Reading November 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
This certainly ruffled feathers. Some wanted to reexamine Sweden’s role in the whole operation. Others made a point of stepping forward and boldly claiming that this is the sort of thing to expect and prepare for. Especially when under NATO command. On the basis of NATO being that much more cool and hip. The political [...]
Continue Reading November 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
A harsh assessment indeed for the popcorn munching invasion that started with such high praise and rave reviews. Where have all the flowers gone?
Observer - Abuse worse than under Saddam, says Iraqi leader - Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of [...]
Continue Reading November 27th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Hillary’s flirting with the extremist Jewish lobby reached new heights as she kicked off the foreign policy tour of her run for would-be presidential candidate. At least Bush spent most of his time clearing brush or whatever he does when he is nowhere to be seen or heard from.
Human Rights Watch is in no way [...]
Continue Reading November 26th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
But things are moving slow (Reuters). So slow in fact that a longitudinal study of satellite imagery was suggested. The US obviously didn’t have the common decency to come clean about the issue. Which in itself is as good as an admission of guilt.
Interestingly, Alvaro Gil Robles visited a known detention center, Camp Bondsteel, in [...]
Continue Reading November 25th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Apparently Pentagon used to refer to WP as a chemical weapon, as long as Saddam was thought to have deployed the weapon. Funny how things are twisted and turned.
Thinkprogress - To downplay the political impact of revelations that U.S. forces used deadly white phosphorus rounds against Iraqi insurgents in Falluja last year, Pentagon officials have [...]
Continue Reading November 25th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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