Amir Taheri of the illustrious Benador Associates and self-proclaimed expert on Iran made the following assertion (originally posted in the National Post) the other day:
The law mandates the government to make sure that all Iranians wear “standard Islamic garments” designed to remove ethnic and class distinctions reflected in clothing, and to eliminate “the influence of [...]
Continue Reading May 20th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
As indicated earlier on, the U.S. military did indeed commit the reprisal attack Haditha last year that left 15 civilians dead, including a 3-year-old girl. It would seem to be the worst incident of the deliberate killing of civilians that has surfaced so far. But it’s far from the only. What makes this so different [...]
Continue Reading May 19th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Occidental Petroleum Corp just got busted by Ecuador. U.S. is “disappointed” … awwwwww, are we supposed to feel sorry for you?
Though for the record it is not at all clear that Ecuador is moving to nationalize all oil operations following the example of other states in the region. Most likely, it is just one really [...]
Continue Reading May 17th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
I have to congratulate Judicial Watch for their accomplishment. Four years of diligent work, just about to proudly show the system really works, and all they get are a few more frames of blurry nothingness from the same angle as has already been released. The other two feeds alleged to have recorded the alleged event [...]
Continue Reading May 17th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Hugo Chavez visits London and the best part, as always, is the protesting that invariably ensues, organized by fringe groups of middle class bellyachers and other extremists feigning concern for “democracy” and bringing up the same tired old propaganda. In this case the hypocrisy is made abundantly clear by the British Tories, though the same [...]
Continue Reading May 15th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Chalk another one down to American depravity and sadism … not to mention neoliberal unaccountability. Ugandan guards working for private firms in Iraq have reportedly been beaten and sodomized in ways that one would rather not try to imagine.
Some of the Ugandan recruits at Alasad Airbase, northwest of Iraq, one of the biggest U.S. fortresses, [...]
Continue Reading May 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
John Pilger reports from Venezuela.
Caracas is said to be one of the world’s toughest cities, yet I have known no fear; the poorest have welcomed my colleagues and me with a warmth characteristic of ordinary Venezuelans but also with the unmistakable confidence of a people who know that change is possible and who, in their [...]
Continue Reading May 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
About 4,000 protestors including activists, workers and student radicals occupied Chongno Street near the American embassy in central Seoul, holding candles as they chanted songs, shouted slogans and waved banners.
Thousands of riot police, backed by fire trucks with water cannons, stood guard over the protest Saturday fearing a repeat of last week’s fighting in Pyongtaek.
The [...]
Continue Reading May 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The unending search for precious metals in Central and South America continues to damage the ecosystem, hurt and displace people. While neoliberals can point to a real wage increase for the few that the mining operation in question employs in Honduras, just about everything else has gotten worse.
Honduras is the western hemisphere’s second poorest country [...]
Continue Reading May 13th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
99 metric tons of Kalashnikovs headed to Iraq from Bosnia have gone missing. Interestingly the work was contracted to a Moldovan airline (Aerocom) known for smuggling arms to Liberia. The suspicion of course is that this is some covert CIA measure to purposely ‘misplace’ the cache, propping up the civil strife and making certain [...]
Continue Reading May 12th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
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