Here is something to think about. BBC notes that it has been a “black week for the UN tribunal authorities in the Hague” and that the recent “death” and “suicide” will “tarnish the reputation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) and undermine confidence in war crimes justice generally.”
Now, as for the usual suspect, [...]
Continue Reading March 12th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Tired of the nickelodeon version of events? Voltaire Network has the solution.
The extremely complex situation in Darfur is being ignored by analysts and by the commentaries published on the western mainstream media, particularly in the United States. US media analysts deal with the Darfur issue only as an ethnic conflict, or more precisely as the [...]
Continue Reading March 12th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Global Policy Forum forwards an interesting look at how the U.S. benefits from, and supports, the sectarian violence in Iraq and the subsequent tearing apart of the nation.
Professor Stephen Zunes examines the history of sectarianism in Iraq and the US role in exacerbating sectarian violence. Though US officials blame violence on “longstanding sectarian hatred,” Iraq [...]
Continue Reading March 12th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Another flimsy terror gambit officially bites the dust. At the very least we have been lied to and the planners were in fact homegrown. But worse still, as Kurt Nimmo argues, like the bombings in London and indeed 9/11, the trail leads right back to respective government which is either terribly helpful to so called [...]
Continue Reading March 12th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Nothing that we don’t already know, but it is nevertheless worth noting, especially when coming from an investigator of the United Nations’ human rights watchdog.
John Dugard noted that “settlers are able to terrorize Palestinians and destroy their trees and crops with impunity” in the West Bank and that even though Israel had formally left the [...]
Continue Reading March 10th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research presents a compelling argument as to why Washington is embarrassing itself when repeatedly trying to slander and bash Hugo Chavez and Venezuela. Despite the massive assault on the nation, Venezuela keeps winning sympathy points all across the spectrum in matters large and small.
It was yet [...]
Continue Reading March 10th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Not surprising, the U.S. State Department is still issuing ludicrous reports on the state of the world. Unfortunately they always take the opportunity to single out nations that for foreign policy reasons are on bad terms with the U.S. Inversely, nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Lebanon and Liberia get a pat on the back. How [...]
Continue Reading March 10th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
From Superpower to Tinhorn Dictatorship? Twilight of the Hegemony
“The entire world now recognizes that America has lost its economic power and is dependent on the rest of the world to finance its budget and trade deficits. The US no longer holds the cards. American real incomes are falling, except for the rich. Jobs for university [...]
Continue Reading March 9th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Apparently having been on tour in Iraq is now “extenuating circumstances.” Apparently it had “made him less sensitive to the suffering of others.” The sentence was thus reduced from eight years to five years and eight months.
[James Michael] Brown beat and handcuffed the woman, a Nigerian resident in the town of Vicenza. He raped her [...]
Continue Reading March 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
And America learned nothing from the Abu Ghraib scandal obviously. Or perhaps they don’t care at all. This is sending a pretty powerful message too, as I’ve pointed out before, in that it reminds the world what happens to those that defy the empire. Like prisoners in ancient Rome being dragged before a jeering amphitheatre [...]
Continue Reading March 6th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
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