Kissinger Still Giving Bad Advice

Macabre and significant yet strangely underreported. Could someone please drive a stake through his heart already.
Kissinger, according to Woodward’s book, apparently has convinced the Bush White House that any troop withdrawals from Iraq will start a wave of public pressure to pull out all U.S. forces from Iraq. He is probably right in this analysis. [...]

Continue Reading October 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg

IAEA blasts U.S. intelligence report on Iran

U.S. caught with pants down, lying about Iran. What a shocker.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has written a scathing letter to a congressional committee saying part of its case against Iran is “outrageous and dishonest.”
The report came a day before an Iranian opposition figure accused Iran of using lasers to enrich uranium in its bid [...]

Continue Reading September 15th, 2006 Björn Hallberg

Israel fired more than a million cluster bomblets in Lebanon

The blood thirst knew no limits. Impotent jewish supremacists exacted collective punishment as they pulled back.
“What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
Quoting his battalion commander, the [...]

Continue Reading September 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg

Appeasing the Enemy

Scott Adams’s humorous take on the US-Iran conflict. Scott isn’t quite convinced of the Chamberlain parable that is being floated in some circles for one.
One thing that became clear from your comments is a fact that’s well known to trial lawyers: People learn by stories more so than by facts. In other words, we form [...]

Continue Reading September 6th, 2006 Björn Hallberg

Israel blames Russia for setbacks in Lebanon

Viktor Litovkin via Voltaire Network. Not surprising, the Israelis can’t come to terms with their failure, not to speak of the way the world views them, and instead blames Russia while once again playing the victim card (exaggerating the threat).
Hizbullah has, reportedly, already destroyed at least one armor division out of a total of seven [...]

Continue Reading August 27th, 2006 Björn Hallberg

No provisions? Pillage!

It does seem like the Israelis have got the rare misprints of both the Geneva and ICC / Hague conventions which are in effect printed backwards. The only other logical explanation would be that they just don’t care about human rights and are proudly flouting international standards.
“If our fighters deep in Lebanese territory are left [...]

Continue Reading August 15th, 2006 Björn Hallberg

Brushing off the yellowcake

Via Raw Story
Following up on earlier reports that Iran attempted to smuggle uranium to the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nonproliferation expert has questioned the veracity of the claims, RAW STORY has learned.
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis of ArmsControlWonk, who is also the Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at Harvard University, [...]

Continue Reading August 10th, 2006 Björn Hallberg

Galloway on Israel and Lebanon

Not only does George Galloway cut right to the heart of the matter, he also lambasts the corporate media prime time on Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News (via The Truth Will Set You Free).

Continue Reading August 7th, 2006 Björn Hallberg

The romance of America and Israel

Economist offers some half-baked, timid but still, insights. Well, I wouldn’t use the word plucky, but yes, the Economist has managed to distill something important.
Why is America so much more pro-Israeli than Europe? The most obvious answer lies in the power of two very visible political forces: the Israeli lobby (AIPAC) and the religious right.

But [...]

Continue Reading August 6th, 2006 Björn Hallberg

Oh, those devious dead babies

Israel would like the world to know it is up against some pretty stiff opposition. Despite a state of the art war machine courtesy of America and a steady trickling of American aid and private contributions, not to mention a desensitized and highly militarized populace, they are losing this latest conflict of their own invention. [...]

Continue Reading August 5th, 2006 Björn Hallberg