Month May 2007

She finally figured it out…

Not that it’s by any means any easy decision to come to. Cindy Sheehan leaves Democratic Party We do not condone our government’s violent meddling in sovereign countries and we condemn the continued murderous occupation of Iraq . We gave…

al Qaeda, the US, and torture

Andrew Sullivan, a religious conservative, says the fathomless sadism of al Qaeda torture techniques are beyond comprehension but tortures done by the US (or its proxies) are also stomach-turning and hideous. What al Qaeda and Saddam did was an extreme…

Hands off Venezuela

We recognise that the non-renewal of the broadcasting licence for RCTV is a legitimate and democratic decision of the Venezuelan government. The reason for this action is not that RCTV is against the government of Hugo Chavez, but rather that…

Democrats deliberately caved on Iraq

The Dems pulled a sleazy parliamentary maneuver to pretend they opposed war funding then stepped aside so Repubs could pass it. Worse, the Dems then bragged to the press about how they fooled the American public. Drinking Liberally in New…

Gazprom as political sledgehammer

Gazprom, the Russian oil company owned by the state, has not only been blackmailing central Asian countries by cutting off their oil supplies, it has been buying up independent Russian media and turning them into propaganda tools. Craig Murray writes…