An interesting read for those who still believe that the Allies were above the brutality now only attributed to German secret police and concentration camps.
Guardian - Despite the six years of bitter fighting which lay behind him, James Morgan-Jones, a major in the Royal Artillery, could not have been more specific about the spectacle in [...]
Continue Reading December 21st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The CIA Director goes to Turkey to inform that Iran and Syria are about to be attacked. Probably looking for the usage of military facilities that they never got the last time around. Reports of the meeting are largely overlooked however.
In the meantime, in Israel, a former Chief-of-Staff claims that Iraq moved its chemical weapons [...]
Continue Reading December 21st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Human Rights Watch is relentless in its efforts to uncover the US web of abuse and human rights violations.
HRW - U.S. Operated Secret ‘Dark Prison’ in Kabul - Eight detainees now held at Guantánamo described to their attorneys how they were held at a facility near Kabul at various times between 2002 and 2004. The [...]
Continue Reading December 19th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Background here. Apparently he kept running the site while the legal process was ongoing and that didn’t impress the court. But not for the reason you’d think.
AP - Judge orders jail for man who ran porn site with war dead photos - The man who runs a pornographic Web site that includes pictures of Iraqi [...]
Continue Reading December 18th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
A horrifying account of American foreign policy towards Cuba. Wholesale barbarisms that most retail terrorists would only dream of.
Voltaire Network (Salim Lamrani) - US official documents that have been recently been declassified show that, between October 1960 and April 1961, the CIA smuggled in 75 tons of explosives into Cuba during 30 clandestine air operations, [...]
Continue Reading December 18th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
While this sort of mind game has been going on for years, it seems that it is now being prioritized.
USA Today - Pentagon rolls out stealth PR - A $300 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans for placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the U.S. government as the source, one of [...]
Continue Reading December 18th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Asia Times strikes again with an apt observation. Just as Israel stands poised to strike as well, as early as march next year, according to official sources (Sunday Times). Though this could be the same sort of lofty, meaningless and bellicose discourse that has been coming out of Tehran lately.
Bottom line is that while Ahmadinejad [...]
Continue Reading December 17th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Now that is a colorful campaign slogan you don’t hear too often.
CS Monitor - Evo Morales is an unorthodox candidate. He’s a former IIama herder and coca farmer, and an indigenous Indian with an eighth-grade education. His platform rests on ending Bolivia’s 20 years of free-market economic policies, and decriminalizing the growing of coca, the [...]
Continue Reading December 16th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The circus touched upon Sweden earlier this week as a citizen was apprehended by the Czech authorities as his plane made a stop in Prague on its way from Stockholm to Beirut. Perhaps due to the focus that the rendition business has been getting lately, the 39 year old man was not put on the [...]
Continue Reading December 15th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The British Foreign Office has been stripped of all credibility in the matter. And even more baffling still than the lies, Britain apparently did not demand any sort of safeguards over the sale.
Guardian - Fresh and apparently incriminating documents have come to light under the Freedom of Information Act on the way Britain helped Israel [...]
Continue Reading December 14th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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