After having interrogated Abul Koyair and Mohammed Abdul Kahar relentlessly for week and torn their house apart, the British authorities are unable to produce even the most basic case against them. The two brothers, one of whom were shot and nearly killed in the flimsy raid, aren’t looking for fame or fortune. They only want [...]
Continue Reading June 13th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The annual report of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the so called SIPRI Yearbook for 2006 is out. And the tidings they bring are not very cheerful. Increases across the spectrum, ongoing wars and various players mindlessly arming themselves for tasks they cannot foresee.
The United States remained the biggest worldwide spender, with 48% of [...]
Continue Reading June 12th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Well, something is definitely on the cheap. Though it has still cost American tax payers millions of dollars and aided in escalating the civil war, killing tens of thousands due to violence and the breakdown of civilian infrastructure. That doesn’t seem very cheap.
It has emerged that the Bush administration bankrolled the warlords, who are secular, [...]
Continue Reading June 12th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
I thought I’d let this one slide given notoriously unreliable reporting in the past and the admission by the US that they had cultivated the al-Zarqawi myth to suit their needs. But al-Zarqawi is just too preposterous to avoid. Fortunately for me, others have already written plenty on the topic. So, here is al-Zarqawi, the [...]
Continue Reading June 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Anyone who is reasonable aware will already have realized that Iran and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad specifically are subject to an elaborate defamation and disinformation campaign. Similarly, one ought to also have realized by now that Ahmadinejad is attributed quotes that he never uttered. Jonathan Steele, reporting for the Guardian, reminds us of this and points to [...]
Continue Reading June 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
In a rare and stunningly honest display of criticism of a member state UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown (a Briton no less) blasted the US over “stealth diplomacy.” Or more precisely the practise of relying on the world body when it suits their whims, and when you can whip up a good war or [...]
Continue Reading June 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Now proudly part of the war on terrrrrrr, courtesy of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the newly anointed neoconservative puppet Stephen Harper (no doubt busy packing his pajamas for the Bilderberg gettogether by the way). All neatly timed to coincide with the alleged London plot. Too bad the central piece of evidence, the three [...]
Continue Reading June 5th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Charley Reese argues that Americans could learn a lot from reading their own Constitution to “see what kind of government they are missing.”
Washington was a very wise man. He said that no country can be trusted beyond its own self-interests. He said that habitual friendship toward a foreign country is as dangerous as habitual enmity. [...]
Continue Reading June 3rd, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The British National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) voted to boycott (”Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics”) “Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who do not publicly dissociate themselves from Israel’s ‘apartheid policies’.” That seems reasonable and a good, nonviolent, measured response that may get people’s attention. But what is the rationale [...]
Continue Reading June 3rd, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Hans Blix offers blistering critique and an uncompromising stance on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The former Chief UN Weapons Inspector calls for a permanent worldwide ban on said weapons and not just a selective badgering of third wave or alleged third wave nuclear powers. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission is also very clear [...]
Continue Reading June 2nd, 2006 Björn Hallberg
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