Month December 2005

IMF approves loan for Iraq:

Let the oil drilling begin The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $685 million loan for Iraq on December 24. Now the country’s war torn economy will be fully integrated into the global economy—indefinitely. The reconstruction of Iraq will soon…

India’s water supplies

Are we to decide the importance of issues by asking how fashionable or glamorous they are? Or by asking how seriously they affect how many? – Nelson Mandela. This two-part article explains in depth the problem of poor water supply…

Maui Petroglyphs

1/2 mile in on the road to Lahaina by the general store. There’s probably many more in the West Maui mountains, however these are easily accessible.

Craig Murray’s site is down

It might be sabotage. Chris Murray is the writer with the documents about UK/US complicity in torture in Uzbekistan that Blair Watch posted today (see following post.) Blair Watch has the post from Craig Murray’s blog online. The story is…

Calling all bloggers

These documents need publishing Blair Watch now has documents online showing British and US government complicity in torture in Uzbekistan. The British government doesn’t want these documents made public. Blair Watch, at some risk to themselves, has published them and…