We had the worst president in history, we have the best president in history. The age of foolishness is now the age of wisdom. It was the epoch of absurd ‘belief’, it is the epoch of…incredulity?
With Mr Obama promising … Lire / Read
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We had the worst president in history, we have the best president in history. The age of foolishness is now the age of wisdom. It was the epoch of absurd ‘belief’, it is the epoch of…incredulity?
With Mr Obama promising … Lire / Read

In a video interview which took place on February 7, 2009, on France 24 English, Christopher Hitchens made the following, astonishing, statement when explaining how he came to support Bush’s Iraq war:
“If you look at the drapeau, … Lire / Read
Just two months ago today, this blog reported on a massacre in Congo which took place as ‘a contingent of 100 U.N. peacekeepers’ were less than a mile away, supposedly unaware of the execution-style killings that claimed over 150 lives … Lire / Read
Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon went to Gaza last week. He went to see first-hand the devastation, death, and homelessness wrought by the Israeli army and air forces.
“A visibly furious Ban Ki-moon condemned as ‘outrageous, shocking … Lire / Read
In May of last year, Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, Mexico’s national chief of police, who had spearheaded a heroic 17 month effort to battle the power over the Mexican government of drug cartels, was assassinated by no less than nine … Lire / Read
The war crimes perpetrated by Israel now include chemical warfare.
It beggars the imagination, but it’s true: white phosphorus, used not only against Gazan civilians – excuse me, ‘Hamas’ – but also against the headquarters of the United Nations Relief … Lire / Read
As the days draw on, in article after article, Israel’s military strikes on Gaza are not only being condemned as war crimes and atrocities, but also as some kind of “beginning of the end” for Israel as we now know … Lire / Read
So, no one will lift a finger, no one will breathe a credible word of censure, no one will do anything whatsoever to prevent the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians. (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-leaders-lie-civilians-die-and-lessons-of-history-are-ignored-1215045.html)
And let us be clear: though every newspaper calls this … Lire / Read
This week I had intended to write about the latest outrages perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.
But I find I can only echo Israel’s critics throughout the world, who multiply in number each passing day, who are demanding a change … Lire / Read
We read today, 11 Dec 2008, about UN peacekeeping forces meeting only an hour from the site of yet another massacre in Congo, bloody brutality rampaging without restraint from any quarter. They were reportedly there to evacuate foreign aid workers … Lire / Read