Day January 8, 2006

UFW becomes the problem?

The LA Times has begun a front-page four-part expose on the United Farm Workers, the union started by Cesar Chavez. Even even part of this is true… (and I’m sure it is.) Today, a Times investigation has found, Chavez’s heirs…

Will they be teaching advanced torture?

India to train Uzbek army with British "observers" present This is from Craig Murray, who knows quite a lot about Uzbekistan. He was the former British Ambassador to that country who was forced out of his job for protesting the…

Body armor in Iraq

Blair Watch gets it right. Things are so volatile and dangerous in Iraq that US military is forced to wear  bulky, heavy body armor. Officers in the field are reporting Iraq still so dangerous that concerns about mobility and comfort,…

The whitewashing of Ariel Sharon

The ‘man of courage and peace’ story ignores his bloody and ruthless past. From the beginning to the end of his career, Sharon was a man of ruthless and often gratuitous violence. The waypoints of his career are all drenched…