FYI:
[W]e have no current plans to accumulate massive armaments on our neighbours’ borders.
- regards, Russian Foreign Ministry.
Thanks for letting us know. Is it perchance time to stop devoting 100% of our resources to chasing criminally insane Arabic men around in the deserts of the world and start paying attention to Russia’s increasingly aggressive militarism and […]
Archive for the 'war' Category
least reassuring statement ever
13Dec07Confirming that the United States still regards the phrase “war on terror” to mean “license for continuing and willful insanity”, a lawyer representing the U.S. in a high profile case in England has indicated that the U.S. view is that the covert abduction of foreign nationals in order to bring them to America to face […]
You might have seen this: the US military ‘lost’ five or six live nuclear warheads and ended up mistakenly flying them across the country. The mistake was not discovered for three and a half hours, when the B-52 in question landed at Barksdale Air Force Base.
The initial questions asked in the media were, of […]
If you are the somewhat paranoid type, at least when it comes to governments, why not scare the hell out of yourself and read this little piece by Paul Craig Roberts (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration) which attempts to answer the riddle: with George W Bush’s popularity sinking ever lower, why […]
two thoughts on nuclear power
20Jul07There are increasing signs that Australia is going to go nuclear in the medium term.
First Thought
One way of looking at the benefits of nuclear power versus the risks is to consider the worst case scenario of an accident, rather than the base likelihood of an accident.
As an analogy, consider the difference between a plane and […]
how to undo 61 years of progress
21Jun07This is a heartwarming little story - the process put in place to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lacks some of the essential elements of fairness that were afforded even to the senior Nazis tried at Nuremberg. That is according to Henry King Jnr, who was chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, where a number of […]
The US has established “Africa Command” on the Horn of Africa - a military group with a mission including fighting Islamist militants and, it seems, getting involved in local conflicts in the process.
Some relevant details:
the US now has two-dozen ‘forts’ established in the region
operations include supporting the “xenophobic to the core” Ethiopian regime […]
