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Ken MacLeod’s blog had this link to an older article from Iraq about the effects of earlier radiological warfare and sanctions against that country. “Before the Gulf War, we had only three or four...

So I’m not the only one to notice how the US/UK are performing the good cop/bad cop routine on Syria. The wrangling over Iraq’s neighbor Syria is starting to look like an international version...

Apparently, in order to successfully try Iraqi political prisoners for war crimes, the US must abandon the principle of non-aggression that it used to indict the Nazis at Nuremberg. Tricky. Is this “Kellogg-Briand” pact...

Roy Orbison In Clingfilm-philia. A fetish so obscure I doubt there’s a latin word for it. Hello, and welcome to my homepage. My name is Ulrich Haarb’rste and I like to write stories about...

Bad timing! Hong Kong tourist board booked a series of adverts entitled Hong Kong Will Take Your Breath Away, just in time for the SARS epidemic to really take hold.

So this is the guy who’s going to lead Bush’s Iraqi puppet regime? Iraqis know Chalabi as a crook. He defrauded depositors out of $300 million when his Petra Bank in Jordan collapsed in...

The war against Iraq is on the road to failure in its most important, durable objective: to transform this construct of British imperialism, Baathist oppression, and American fantasies into a willing replica of Western...

Female church leader, 32, sleeps with 14-year-old boy on youth trips after they met at a church meeting. Now she’s pregnant, and in love. A 32-year-old mother of three has been charged with sexual...

I have a good idea what websites this guy frequents. A Queens man who decapitated his Afghan filmmaking partner and put his head in a freezer will claim temporary insanity – caused by witnessing...

Spare a thought for the 18 Afghans released this month from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They showed up yesterday in Kabul — cleared, for what it’s worth, of suspicion. One...