February 27, 2008
Keeping an Eye on Turkey
I would recommend keeping an eye on what Turkey is doing. As I have discussed elsewhere (here and here), the conflict between the Iraqi Kurds and Turkey places the United States in a precarious position....
February 18, 2008
British Documents on Iraq's WMD
Keeping the Record Straight - What did the Brits Know - the BBC released a report with links to the various communiques and reports. 11 Sep: Unknown e-mailer makes last call for intelligence material or here September dossier conclusion (left...
February 9, 2008
Back to the Israeli Bombing of Syria
Back on November 7, 2007 I wrote Who Bombed Syria? Did Syria Get Bombed?. I was trying to puzzle through the conflicting and shifting information regarding the Israeli (or U.S.?) bombing of an alleged nuclear (or chemical weapons) facility in...
October 4, 2007
Burma: The Back Story
The current protests in Burma are attributed to a 500% increase in fuel prices which crippled an already struggling population's ability to survive (BBC). The people of Burma have been descending into deeper and deeper poverty over the last decade....
October 3, 2007
Cry for Burma, But Take Action
The news leaks out of Burma of brutal repression by the Junta in power for 40 years. Brave people on the ground send out news and pictures to an international network of Burmese bloggers. Peaceful protests is met with force...
February 27, 2007
Too Dirty for Negroponte?
As usual, Hersch is just full of surprises. In The Redirection: Is the Administration's New Policy Benefiting Our Enemies in the War on Terrorism?, Hersch talks about the covert funding of Sunni extremists and of Negroponte's move from DHI to...
June 18, 2005
Will Iraq Be A US Proxy Again?
I did a triple take when I saw the following headline from Gulf News - Fears of military action on Iraq-Iran border. Surely, the article was referring to the yet another US "operation" against "insurgents." However, the announced offensives are...
March 5, 2005
Are We Seeing a Rash of Suicides?
It seems that suicide is becoming very popular. First we had Gary Webb, then Hunter Thompson and now former Ukranian Interior Minister Yury Kravchenko. Webb died of two gunshot wounds to the head as did Kravchenko. Hunter S. Thompson also...
February 5, 2005
HAARP Research Makes the News
The February 2005 edition of Nature has a research report from Todd Pedersen and Elizabeth Gerken on a 3/10/2004 experiment with HAARP. The report - Creation of visible artificial optical emissions in the aurora by high-power radio waves (try this...
