08.12.07 - 05:23pm
Philadelphia Daily News columnist, Stu Bykofsky, wants another 9/11 style terrorist attack on the United States. Yes, you read that right. Bykofsky wants thousands of Americans to die in a new terrorist atrocity; you see he thinks another major terrorist strike on the US is just about the only thing that can “save America” and it seems the Daily News is more than happy to give publicity to his lunatic ravings.
08.10.07 - 10:08am
The common thread, running through Malaya, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq is clear. The very people whose hearts and minds the west claims to be trying to win are the ones who are on the receiving end of its enormous destructive military power. And thus the bankruptcy of such claims are revealed. How can you win the support of people whose family and friends you are killing?
08.09.07 - 01:04pm
If you want a good argument for keeping control of the internet out of the hands of big business then look no further than the webcast of Pearl Jam’s Lollapalooza performance on Sunday night.
08.08.07 - 01:46pm
Nevertheless, it is highly unusual, if not unique, for the police to refer a broadcaster to the industry regulator and one wonders what they found when they viewed the entire 56 hours of film footage. Channel 4 owes us an explanation. And a transcript would be a good place to start.
08.08.07 - 08:53am
Among those who could be released is Jamil el Banna who, prior to being spirited away into legal limbo by the US authorities, lived close to my own home in northwest London and whose case has been highlighted in both the local and national media. The father of five, a Palestinian of Jordanian nationality who had been granted refugee status in the UK, was apprehended in bizarre circumstances in the Gambia in 2002 while on a business trip, apparently with either the complicity or at least knowledge of the British secret service.
08.07.07 - 02:03pm
Antiwar protester Brian Haw has won the latest round in his determined battle with the authorities, which have waged an ongoing campaign against his six-year Parliament Square demonstration. According to news reports today, the High Court has thrown out an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against an earlier ruling that conditions, imposed by the police under the Serious Organised Crime Act, on his peaceful protest against the Iraq war were unlawful.
08.04.07 - 11:43am
With bridges collapsing in the United States and the ongoing war in the Middle East, who wants to waste their time with something as crushingly dull as the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme? Well, when it is siphoning half a billion pounds a year out of our pockets to feather the pillows of one of the world’s most profitable industries it is worth paying attention to.
