The BBC reports today that price of oil is back up to over $70 a barrel following a drop of more than $1.50 following news yesterday that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had written Bush a personal letter. This was initially… Read moreAhmadinejad letter signals escalation
As we have noted, more sophisticated minds have questioned his math. From AFP, May 6: WASHINGTON: United States President George W Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the… Read moreBush: GWOT is World War III
Gee, what an astonishing success the Global War on Terrorism has been. From the LA Times, April 29: U.S. Reports a Surge in Global Terrorism The count has soared since the Iraq invasion, but only now are attacks there being… Read moreState Department: global terrorism surges
We noted nearly a year ago that the US was seeking permanent military bases in Bulgaria, a former Warsaw Pact member strategically located on the Black Sea—just north of the Bosphorus-Dardanelles choke-point, perfect for either policing a US-controlled pipeline for… Read moreUS seals deal on Bulgaria bases
We wish we were joking. What a shame nobody noticed this—the little note in the second section about the Halliburton contract (emphasis added) should have been front-page news in every paper in the country. Back on Feb. 23, Nat Perry… Read moreHalliburton wins concentration camp contract
A good thing we all know global warming is only a myth. From MSNBC, May 2: BEIJING — Glaciers covering China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau are shrinking by 7 percent a year due to global warming and the environmental consequences may be… Read moreTibet: glaciers melting fast
From our correspondent Mahmood Ketabchi. The text, with photos from Tehran, is on his blog, Hammer & Broom. Workers take control of the government sponsored May Day rally in Tehran As many Iranian workers prepared to celebrate May 1st, International… Read moreTehran: workers upstage official Mayday rally
The Greek anarchists and globophobes have been pretty busy lately. From Reuters May 6: ATHENS — Thousands of antiglobalization demonstrators marched Saturday through central Athens and to the United States Embassy to protest Washington’s policies in Iraq and Iran. In… Read moreProtests rock Athens
What an historical irony that this is happening now, eh? Talk about the paradoxical unity of opposites. And hooray for Montana! Even out in the heartland, not all Americans are brainless reactionaries, it seems. From AP, May 3: HELENA, Montana… Read moreWorld War I protesters win (posthumous) pardon
All accounts indicate Porter Goss is being cycled out as CIA chief because he “butted heads” (Newsday, May 6) with National Intelligence Director John Negroponte. Goss, former head of the House Intelligence Committee, was appointed in September 2004 as an… Read moreShakeup at CIA —again
Those who think the current global conflict is fundamentally about anything other than a strategic struggle for control of oil can be disabused of their illusions by reading (surprise!) the New York Times (May 6). This includes those who buy… Read moreCheney does Kazakhstan
When will it be recognized that cars are deadly weapons? We can hear the Automobile Association of America now: “Cars don’t kill, people do!” From Newsday, May 6: Cabbie charged with hate crime A taxi driver was arrested and charged… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
