Monthly Archive: April 2003

Guy spends five (!) hours trying to kill his wife (via slashing, smothering, and stabbing) and the best defence he can come up with is “I was dreaming”. A nuclear engineer who couldn’t convince...

There’s a cool interview with David Halberstam which points out that at current rates, if the Iraq invasion and occupation was to stretch out as long as the occupation in Vietnam did, then nearly...

So I read endless US media props that everything in Iraq is now “secure” and the people are “rejoicing”. Uh-huh. I think in Iraq, paying homage to those with the biggest tanks is probably...

Fisk reports that dirty bullets were being used on Baghdad buildings – if that’s true then it’s shocking that radiological warfare is being used within densely populated urban environments and not directed against armour...

Sometimes Fark is so funny I could pee.

So I note that coinciding with the savage US push in to Baghdad proper, the Pentagon seems to have taken especial care to seperately target both Al Jazeera’s offices and the Palestine Hotel, where...

There is a new XXXXXXXXX XXXX for XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXX. Merely uttering this code in public is probably illegal – we’ve returned to a society ruled by secret words of power. C E N...

There is a new XXXXXXXXX XXXX for XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXX. Merely uttering this code in public is probably illegal – we’ve returned to a society ruled by secret words of power. C E N...

So over 3 million people have died recently in the Congolese War. I don’t see Bush or Blair sending in their armies to bring these people freedom or security any time soon. No oil,...

An Iraqi mother in a van fired on by US soldiers says she saw her two young daughters decapitated in the incident that also killed her son and eight other members of her family...