I was listening to the radio when the massive bombing of Baghdad started this evening. I instinctively switched on the TV to watch, but soon found myself being sucked into that war-porn feeling of unreality; somehow the grainy, compressed images from a hotel balcony of distant flashes, flames and smoke made the attack feel less [...]
Jesus, the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the US is using napalm.
Another senior American diplomat has resigned; John Brady Kiesling’s letter of resignation to Colin Powell makes for interesting reading:
The policies we are now asked to advance are incompatible not only with American values but also with American interests. Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has [...]
News and articles are appearing thick and fast at the moment, so here’s a fairly random collection of interesting stories from the last couple of days:
Things aren’t looking too good for the Kurds: the Turkish parliament has voted to send Turkish troops into northern Iraq. Now The Guardian reports that Turkey is determined to dispatch [...]
In addition to London, there were huge protests across the world yesterday. In the US, 1,400 demonstrators were arrested in San Francisco (good photo), and in New York Broadway was blocked for two blocks. At least 100,000 people marched through the Greek capital, and there were mass protests in places as widespread as Belgium, Egypt, [...]
Rob’s finally updated his site with the news that he and Emma are soon going off to Las Vegas to act as human shields against Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Well, officially they’re going to get hitched, but I know the unspoken reason. So which one of them’s going to be the attorney? My money’s [...]
Natasha Walter provides a refreshing counter to all the ‘back our brave boys’ tripe being spouted by the mainstream media, Don’t idealise the soldiers fighting this unjust war:
It is all very well to hear about how vulnerable and heroic our troops are, but we should not forget that the truly vulnerable people are not the [...]
Don’t panic! Even Dad’s Army star Clive Dunn is against the war. “They don’t like it up ‘em…”
“Michael Jackson is a terrorist. If you spot this smooth criminal with dead, dead eyes, run the fuck away.”
Not sure what to do in the event of a terrorist attack? Here’s an alternative take on the US government’s terror-readiness graphics. It’s good to have something to laugh at at the moment.
I got back from the protest in Parliament Square at about ten tonight, and discovered that not only are the missiles raining down on Iraq, but Celtic goals were also raining down on Liverpool. So much for the little ray of joy I was hoping for. Still, least the demo was good — I got [...]
Not really much I can say, except that I hope that it’s quick and with the minimum of suffering to the innocent people caught up in it. I’ll be joining the anti-war protests at Parliament Square at 6pm tonight.
I’m feeling really fucking angry about this whole war thing at the moment, and I don’t like that. Angry doesn’t suit me. And with an absence of senior British and American policy-makers in the room, there’s not a great deal I can do to vent my rage right now. So rather than spending an hour [...]
So Claire Short is staying on to help ease the post-war suffering in Iraq — presumably in the same way Britain and the USA helped Afghanistan:
As the United States prepares to spend some $12 billion a month on bombing the Iraqis, it has so far offered only $65 million to provide them with food, water, [...]
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