HSBC earned more than £650m in fees from work for Textron, US manufacturer of cluster weapons By Nick Matheson Guardian.co.uk The deadly trade in cluster bombs is funded by the world’s biggest banks who have loaned or arranged finance worth $20bn (£12.5bn) to firms producing the controversial weapons, despite growing […]
South West Asia
By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home. Axis of Logic. On 16 October 1935, a barrel marked “cement” fell as it was being unloaded from ships at the port in Jaffa. The broken barrel contained guns, grenades, and ammunition and was one of many secret […]
[ An excerpt from the beeb doco “The Power of Nightmares” which is one of those excellent little red pill shows that make you dumber for having not seen it – because it throws some light on the origins of the -bullsh*t- war on terror. ] [youtube]r-hYorNi0nA[/youtube] [The same -bullsh*t- […]
by Michel Chossudovsky From Globalresearch [ … almost threw up in my own mouth when I heard Obama had been given the peace prize. All that smooth-talking mannequin has done so far is emulate the planet fisting policies of his ape-minded predecessor, Bush II ] When war becomes peace, When […]
Vietnam, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Afghanistan,Iraq,and Pakistan. Terrorists,Terrorizers, Terrorism. Who is the enemy here and who is the hero? The media, in all of it’s apathetic glory, has impaled truth and justice while spreading confusion and unsubstantiated disdain against people many of us do not even know. This is all about […]
By Stephen M. St. John 26 October 2009 The genetically engineered onion has been peeled. The 5+1 monstrosity is down to the final three layers confronting Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna; namely the USA, Russia and France, all acting in synch with the histrionics of the […]
Israel’s prime minister has instructed his government to draw up plans for a “world wide campaign” to lobby for changes in the international laws of war. The order from Binyamin Netanyahu follows a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday to discuss Israel’s response to the UN’s Goldstone report, which condemned Israel’s […]
gregfelton.com September 30, 2009 If you have ever visited a blog or on-line discussion group on the Middle East you have doubtless had the misfortune to run into them. [or if you spend some time in the comments section of this seemingly extra popular PooTube video here : [youtube]ynWjYHP91gA[/youtube] where […]
This from Arundhati Roy and DroppingKnowledge.org Brief, articulate, relevant and to the point. What’s happening here is happening everywhere. [youtube]Z2Ok6apsHlg[/youtube]
[ Kind of speaks for itself … ] [youtube]lntNYsw7Fc0[/youtube]