During their Chicago summit on 20th and 21st May 2012 NATO [ being an evil pack of self-interested, mean-spirited pricks ] celebrated the way they want to further extend their war alliance in the years to come: not only by large scale incorporation of new member states and internationally unlawful […]
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Amnesty International are calling on gullible people everywhere to sign a petiton to get Putin to “stop Assad”. They bitch that “Russia continues to supply arms to the Syrian regime” and that “Russia wants no enforced departure of President Assad”. They ignore the fact that the rebels are a creation […]
[ Sure hope it’s dying. HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’ kicks news in its naff nads ] [youtube]GggCB01ofFY[/youtube] [youtube]6E-ndv2O0KM[/youtube] [youtube]keaTb60IsCs[/youtube] [youtube]vMAEi_vWpSU[/youtube]
[ … because defending the indefensible – is hard ] What continues to be starkly apparent to me as I interact widely on social networking sites is that traditional hasbara, or the set of arguments used in the past to defend Israel’s right to exist or explain its right to […]
[ Can’t recommend this one enough ] [youtube]zCGSiqow9k4[/youtube]
When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it’s essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked – questions like: where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does that mean for the millions of ordinary people who […]
[ I’ll be buggered if I’m joining the Navy ] After exposing the biased policy of American’s movie rating system in his 2006 documentary “This Film Is Not Yet Rated,” Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick has returned with a new investigative doco “The Invisible War” in which he tackles the controversial […]
Just some of the many tens of thousands of reasons why Vimeo [ which is soon to be banned by the country of India – for some reason ] shits all over is that much better than commercially focused broadcast television. . Youth Without Youth ~ A clip nicely chopped […]
The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has run two articles alleging that Syrian Sunni rebels committed the Houla massacre, reporting that the victims were largely from Alawi and Shia minorities in Houla. . This is important because the Syrian government has been blamed for the massacre and the massacre has […]
[ … … neat … like in THX-1138 ] A recent Supreme Court ruling on the appeals of Gitmo detainees leaves them with no ‘legal’ option but to die in detention. By not taking any of these cases, the Supreme Court has ensured that the government does not need to […]