Day January 25, 2006

Voters support Hamas

The militant group Hamas gained a firm foothold in the world of Palestinian politics yesterday, dealing a serious blow to the ruling Fatah movement, which barely clung to power. “Hamas will transform politics or politics will transform Hamas,” said Ghassan…

US and Iran find common ground!

In a reversal of policy, the United States on Monday backed an Iranian initiative to deny United Nations consultative status to organizations working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Sigh. Body and Soul comments…

New look and feel

Let me know what you think of the new look. The old one was ok, but a bit plain. This is an adapted version of Patricia Muller’s excellent Connections theme, and I’ll be tweaking it more over the next few…

Hamas vs. Fatah

MSM articles about the Palestinian elections today are nearly uniformly negative, especially about the possibility of Hamas winning big. Yet if western powers genuinely believe in democracy they should applaud the process and support whoever wins. Otherwise it appears they…

The guerrilla oil cartel

The control over the price of oil is in now in the hands of global guerrillas — the open source, system disrupting, transnational crime fueled, sons of global fragmentation. These actors can now, at will, curtail the supply of oil…