When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away. This was the height of the cold war, and as...
In the Bush administration’s latest breach of the Geneva Convention, US forces in IRAQ are now kidnapping the wives and families of suspected Ba’ath party collaborators and holding them hostage to force those Ba’athists to turn themselves in....
*http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/25/60minutes/main551091.shtml Halliburton: All In The Family* April 27, 2003 After dropping more than 28,000 bombs on Iraq, the United States has now begun the business of rebuilding the country. And it promises to be quite a...
Okay, I’ll admit to skimming this, however this might explain why EU resistance to this action in Iraq was so fierce.. and is yet another perspective on the overly-simplistic “War is about oil” mantra. -Ian. —-
Surprisingly, this beat has not yet been picked up in the mainstream press. Whether or not it’s true, this could serve to further indict Syria in the eyes of the world and provide justification for the toppling of the government there by the US-led Coalition. My...
