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Neocon hubris still causing trouble years later.
Remember the above map? It was drawn up by Infinite Star Armchair general Ralph “Blood ‘N Guts” Peters back in 2006 in the last flourish of neocon thriumphalism as the way to create a “better Middle...
View ArticleSpirit of ’68 ’09
Students turn out not to be apathetic proto-consumers shock! Beginning with a 24-hour occupation at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) on 13 January, the sit-ins spread across the...
View ArticleOn message
Wherever you start looking, the same excuses crop up over and over again. From the NATO Media Operations Centre’s socalled “master narrative“, as leaked by Wikileaks, come the following points its...
View ArticleThe US withdrawal from Iraq
Let Jon Steward explain it to you: On a more serious note, it was clear long before he was elected that Obama was never going to be the great anti-war president we would like him to be. He was smart...
View ArticleThe facade has changed in Washington DC, the policies are still the same
So says Cindy Sheehan, who hasn’t been fooled enough by Obama’s moderate anti-war stance to not notice the buildup of troops in Afghanistan or the fact that withdrawal from Iraq seems more talk than...
View ArticleFirst Muslim women elected to British parliament
Via TwoCircles.net: London : Shabana Mahmood and Yasmin Qureshi have become the first Muslim women to be elected to the British parliament after successfully defending Labour seats. Mahmood...
View ArticleNobody knew? No, nobodies knew about the dangers of Iraq
Last Tuesday Glenn Greenwald was right to call out the Washington media on the stupidity of excusing their cheerleading for the War on Iraq seven years ago with the idea that “nobody knew” it would be...
View ArticleIntervention in Libya: third time lucky?
It’s amazing how fast things can happen. This time last week we were still arguing about the merits of a no-fly zone and the likelihood of it being established in the first place — late Saturday night...
View ArticleAfter Iraq and Afghanistan, why would Libya go any better?
The Flying Rodent despairs off the ease with which supposedly sensible people embrace yet another halfbaked plan to bomb the democracy into a country: Honestly. I thought that pretty much the only...
View ArticleWhy war on Iran is inevitable
Eleven years of non-stop war later and the US political establishment is as moronic as ever: Instead of doing penance every single day for the rest of their natural lives for the deaths of 4,422...
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