The general who “Gitmoized” Abu Ghraib briefed Rumsefled’s top aides, it is now revealed—contradicting his own earlier testimony. From the Chicago Tribune July 15 via TruthOut: General Contradicted Abu Ghraib Testimony Transcripts reveal he briefed top officials. Washington – An… Read moreGeneral tied to Abu Ghraib torture briefed Rumsfeld aides
And, really, we could have done without this one. From the New York Times, July 15 via TruthOut: Chinese General Threatens Use of A-Bombs if US Intrudes Beijing – China should use nuclear weapons against the United States if the… Read moreChina rattles nuclear sabre
Jeez, will people please stop blowing other people up already? This is really getting old. Minibus Explosion in Turkey Leaves 5 Dead ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – A bomb tore apart a minibus in a popular Aegean beach resort town Saturday,… Read moreTerror in Turkey
We have noted before that the world-shaking London attacks took a toll equivalent to the average bad day in Iraq. Well, Iraq is having another bad day. From Reuters: Suicide bomber truck kills 55 in Iraq Sat. July 16 BAGHDAD… Read moreAnother bad day in Iraq
This July 14 commentary from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty provides some long-overdue real analysis on the Iraqi insurgency. While the anti-war movement either ignores or glorifies the blood-drenched and reactionary “resistance” in Iraq, RFE/RL, funded by the State Department (which,… Read moreIraq: terrorism or “honorable resistance”?
“Twenty years ago this summer,” the vile Otto Reich writes for the July 18 National Review, “Washington’s hottest debate centered on the Contras’ war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua — and how to keep the nations of Central America from… Read moreNicaraguan president plugs CAFTA, faces impeachment
We recently noted the new rapprochement between India and Burma, traditional rivals, which has worked to the detriment of indigenous groups in the remote rainforest straddling the border, heretofore able to play the two powers off against each other to… Read morePipeline politics behind India-Burma rapprochement
This analysis from Lebanon’s Daily Star, July 12, online at Kurdish Media, makes clear the dilemma of the Syrian Kurds. The fact that they are disenfranchised by the Damascus regime makes them a convenient football for White House hawks. And… Read moreSyria’s Kurds: pawns or actors?
So read a July 14 article on the JTA. Some settlers write back? Several Gaza Strip settlers wrote their Israeli identification numbers on their arms in a bid to recall concentration camp inmates’ tattoos. Thursday’s protests, adopted by several residents… Read moreFar-right Jews don ‘Holocaust tattoos’
It’s starting to look like the truce is off following yesterday’s suicide blast in Israel. From DPA, July 14: Israel recaptured Tulkarm early Wednesday, after a suicide bomber from that West Bank town killed four Israelis and injured dozens when… Read moreTulkarm re-occupied
The first apparent example of what Christopher Hitchens called “bloody foolishness” that he hoped Britons would be too civilized for following the London attacks. From Pakistan’s Daily Times, July 15: Pakistani shot dead LONDON: Pakistani national Kamal Raza Butt was… Read moreRevenge killing in London?
From the UK Guardian, July 14: At least 27 people, most of them children, were killed and up to 25 wounded when a car packed with explosives targeted a convoy of US soldiers on a community relations mission in a… Read moreIraq: slaughter of the innocents
