Author: mike

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...

So when I went to check my email in Hotmail, a banner advert for this came up. It does worry me a bit that Hotmail thinks I need to shave my bush. I didn’t...

Even as the Americans were fighting their way up the river and the F/A-18s were returning to bombard the bank, the Iraqi Minister of Information gave a press conference on the roof of the...

I find on Plastic that opinion is now evenly divided between positive and negative. Apparently, I tend to be moderated as follows: informative disingenuous obnoxious astute.

So the US/UK military and political leaders have been making a great sound and fury about how some of those dastardly Iraqis have been wearing civilian clothes while daring, daring! to fight back. So...

So some Iraqis, picking over some damaged, abandoned US armoured vehicles, found some unusual graffiti… “Cojone EH,” it said. This caused cultural diversity in our conversation with Iraqi civilians, some of whom had driven...

It’s like Cops, but with heavy artillery! I note the footage of the US armour column rampaging along the motorway shooting everything within range seems to have been a Fox “News” exclusive. Some genius...

I’m glad they cleared that one up… for a while it looked like the UN might be involved and we all know they are a communistic front. And they managed to sideline those pesky...

So the chickenhawks like to diss the Iraqis for staging their military “near” civilians and interspersed between civilian infrastructures. Yet I read a fascinating report in the CSM about US troops illegally requisitioning schools...