- Noam Chomsky on "malignant design" and world cruelty.
- Karma Nabulsi, politics fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and a former PLO representative, discusses the Arafat myth and Western ability to humanise the Israelis and demonise the Palestinians.
- George Monbiot on the US using chemical weapons in Iraq, lying about it and covering it up.
- The Australian government continues its immoral ban on abortion drug, RU486.
- American journalist David Corn discusses Ahmed Chalabi and Christopher Hitchens. Chalabi is a crook and Hitchens seems content defending the indefensible: "Christopher, you would not trust Bush to review a single death penalty application, yet you were happy to hand him the keys to this invasion and now you make excuses for how he misrepresented the intelligence he did not even bother to read."
- Al-Ahram Weekly examines the possibility of a democratic future for the Arab world. Ayman El-Amir writes:
"...The US has never been a net exporter of democratic models to undemocratic countries. If anything, the US has a historical record of supporting tyrannical regimes that served its strategic interests. This remains true today as it was half a century ago."
UPDATE: The Independent investigates the claim that the US used chemical weapons in Fallujah and concludes that the US military are lying and eyewitness accounts confirm the charges.
- Karma Nabulsi, politics fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and a former PLO representative, discusses the Arafat myth and Western ability to humanise the Israelis and demonise the Palestinians.
- George Monbiot on the US using chemical weapons in Iraq, lying about it and covering it up.
- The Australian government continues its immoral ban on abortion drug, RU486.
- American journalist David Corn discusses Ahmed Chalabi and Christopher Hitchens. Chalabi is a crook and Hitchens seems content defending the indefensible: "Christopher, you would not trust Bush to review a single death penalty application, yet you were happy to hand him the keys to this invasion and now you make excuses for how he misrepresented the intelligence he did not even bother to read."
- Al-Ahram Weekly examines the possibility of a democratic future for the Arab world. Ayman El-Amir writes:
"...The US has never been a net exporter of democratic models to undemocratic countries. If anything, the US has a historical record of supporting tyrannical regimes that served its strategic interests. This remains true today as it was half a century ago."
UPDATE: The Independent investigates the claim that the US used chemical weapons in Fallujah and concludes that the US military are lying and eyewitness accounts confirm the charges.
3 Comments:
You are, if anything, clueless.
So much time and so few insights.
Must come with defending empire...
I agree when Chomsky see's Bushes "moral clarity" as one of the main evil's of today but disagree with Chomsky's greenhouse effect assumptions
I see the main source of greenhouse gas emissions is the spread of dirty smokestack industrries now growing most quickly in China and India. While they have every right to enjoy economic development an extra 2.3 billion industrialised consumers will well and truly push up emissions no matter what already industrialised countries can reasonably do. Even the US cannot be expected to take a moral stand on greenhouse gases when expensive US reduction efforts will have no real effect.
As to the US and alleged "chemical weapons" in Iraq. The "chemical weapon" definition being used would include all forms of explosives, including standard hand grenades. I can see that several journalists are trying to build up a mantra on this subject but all weapons are nasty - just in different ways. Any deliverers of weapons, be they army or terrorists, are reluctant to talk about the effects or use of specific weapons because actual "killing" rather than "liberating" is bad PR.
Pity, but you shouldn't fault them for trying.
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