Month July 2006

Craig Murray speaks

Murray was the British ambassador to Uzbekistan who was forced out of his job for exposing the US/British practice of sending politicial prisoners to Uzbekistan to be tortured. From the intro to the interview First of all, if you’ve read…

High gas prices hurt lower incomes

Some in California are now paying for gas by pawning something. About 10 times a week, a customer says, “I just need money to get gas until I get my paycheck,” Robinson [a pawn shop owner] said. “It’s something that…

It’s 79 degrees today…

… at 7:45 in the morning. It’ll be over 100 today where we live. Yesterday, it was 97 downtown. Others areas of LA were 110. Indio was 122. Yes, 122. California is having a monumental heat wave with no end…

The Republocrats blindly defend Israel

Or are they called the Demoblicans? No matter, they walk in lockstep on Israel, not even questioning the insanity of Israel bombing suburbs in Lebanon because two soldiers were captured. Not even Russ Feingold The Democrats, every bit as much…

The framing of Hizbullah

It is ironic, given Israel’s bombing of civilian targets in Beirut, that Hizbullah is often dismissed in the west as a terrorist organisation. In fact its military record is overwhelmingly one of conflict with Israeli forces inside Lebanese territory.