Afghan Women
April 22, 2004Lest we all adopt the “don’t worry, be happy” attitude of the Bush administration towards Afghanistan, post U.S. invasion of that country, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan illuminates the continuing plight of the women of that country.
Religious Driven Foreign Policy
April 21, 2004An insightful article on the religious lunacy controlling (through a minority voting block) U.S. foreign policy.
Iraq’s Oil Wars
April 21, 2004A well written summary of Iraq’s military history and the impact of oil influence and control. Particularly revealing for me was the degree of influence BP has on the Blair government, while we’re all well aware of the influence oil companies have on the Bush government.
Blowback Alert
April 17, 2004So now the Bush Admin has realised no country that forms it’s foreign policy in some consultation with its citizens wants to engage in illegal occupations, there is a need to draft further peace-keepers. In classically racist fashion, the Bush administration is targetting African countries to receive funding to train and provide “peacekeepers”. This is…
How the Whitehouse allowed 9/11 to occur to act as a justification for attacking Iraq
April 15, 2004According to former treasury secretary Paul O’Neill’s revelations, it is now known that the Bush whitehouse had unilaterally planned to depose Saddam ten days after presidential inauguration. Completely in contravention of the U.N principle of military preemption to which the U.S. is legally obligated to.
Chomsky on the Militarisation of Space
April 14, 2004A recent seminar by Noam Chomsky on the militarisation of space, given at MIT.
Withholding War Taxes
April 9, 2004Since the tax day in the U.S. is due, I found a good guide to withholding taxes which are used to fund the current illegal war against Iraq. I found this on the Iraq Peace Team web site, part of the Voices in the Wilderness organisation. At the moment I’m following the fourth recommendation, earn…
Balance of Trade in Advanced Technologies
April 3, 2004I’ve been reading Emmanuel Todd’s “After The Empire”, in which he references the Census bureau statistics on balance of trade in advanced technologies. The numbers speak for themselves, the U.S. is importing more advanced technologies than it is exporting, consistently, since 2001. This is less an indictment of the Bush administration specifically and more a…
Get sent down for sharing files
March 29, 2004In a bid to imprison the entire U.S. population, congressional committees are currently considering a bill which would lead to imprisonment for people caught sharing 2,500 files via peer-to-peer networks.