Craig Murray, Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan and torture whistleblower has ignored the Foreign Office ban and released several full-text documents relating to his experiences there. It seems clear that Britain knowingly supported the policies of the Uzbek government, and extracted more or less useless information from the deal, despite claiming not to. It matters [...]
Continue Reading December 31st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Or in other words, the US has run into a bit of a snag dictating to other countries how to conduct their affairs as to best suit the interests of the US. To say that America has “image problems” is a bit of an understatement and implies that it is something that can be fixed [...]
Continue Reading December 31st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The US stands poised for saber-rattling as Wayne Madsen puts it. Surely, there will be more than just displays in the near future, pending of course the outcome of next year’s elections in Nicaragua, Peru, and Mexico.
Wayne Madsen Report - Southern Command is planning a saber-rattling military exercise in Paraguay in 2006 called “Fuerzas Comando [...]
Continue Reading December 29th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Really amazing. Besides Stasi and the KGB I recall the third reich. One of the hallmarks of totalitarian regimes, I am told, is the constant and seemingly inept use of the government and especially the militarized police by a layered onion principle. No responsibility. No clarity. No instances for appeal. Just layer upon layer, without [...]
Continue Reading December 29th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Why not? Even the simple ban on torture was fought tooth and nail. And after all, every empire has slaves. And the US is so good at it, having had plenty of experience in the past. In fact this is the neoliberal empire nightmare, where legionnaires and mercs are encouraged to make money on the [...]
Continue Reading December 29th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Old news that needs to be rehashed in the light of recent revelations. One can never be too repetitive with the people of the United States of Amnesia. They tend to forget very quickly, like restless children. As adapted from Norman Solomon’s new book “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to [...]
Continue Reading December 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Even the corporate media have started to talk about the possibility (even though it comes from The Nation technically).
Well, it is a start, to strike some fear into the heart of those that would consider bending the rules and consider themselves to be above ethics and the rule of law. But is it good enough? [...]
Continue Reading December 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
And guess where they are based? Rape central, with the US Marines in Okinawa of course.
CNN - Philippine prosecutors charged four U.S. Marines on Tuesday with raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman in early November but cleared two other soldiers who had also been accused.
Washington has not responded publicly to an earlier request by the Philippine [...]
Continue Reading December 27th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Another slam dunk for the US.
CNN - The FBI has been covertly monitoring mosques and Muslim homes and businesses in U.S. cities for abnormal radiation levels since 2002, several government officials confirmed Friday.
One government official said the authorities don’t obtain warrants because the testing is conducted from outside the buildings on what they consider public [...]
Continue Reading December 24th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The Angry Arab News Service spots the inconsistencies in the corporate media regarding the death of Rafic Hariri. Spearheaded by an editorial in the New York Times.
AANS - This is the newspaper that cheered Israeli invasions, bombings, and occupations of Lebanon. Now, it has become quite sensitive to Lebanon’s sovereignty. And the tears it is [...]
Continue Reading December 21st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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