If you didn’t see it last night, Channel 4 News’ piece on the two reports into the July 7th bombings is well worth watching online, particularly for the interview with two of the survivors and the husband of another. Apparently the reports make no direct references to the war in Iraq (robust allied action), which [...]
Jesus, the bad news yesterday seemed particularly relentless, didn’t it? First it was hundreds or thousands dead in the US, with thousands made homeless. Then it was 900 or so crushed or drowned in Iraq. And finally the train killing a woman and her two kids outside London. Terribly depressing, but at the same time [...]
Taking the piss out of Kilroy-Silk is rather like shooting fish in a barrel, but this is still pretty funny: The Vanitas Party.
Channel 4 news also reported what must surely be the strangest news story of the week – a photo published on the website of the Mujahideen Squadrons showing a US soldier “abducted” in [...]
A mixed bag of links today. Starting with something of a surprise - the Cocteau Twins are reforming, at least for the Coachella Valley Music Festival. Nothing to say whether it’s a one-off or not….
Tom poses an interesting question over at Random Acts Of Reality: How long until the MPAA/RIAA/BPI/BFI try suing Google for helping [...]
George Monbiot has calculated that the money pledged for the tsunami disaster by the British government is the equivalent of what they spend in five and a half days on the Iraq war. For the US, their donation equates to one and a half days spending on the war.
Two links for you today, the first one upsetting, with the second one to cheer you up (or at least baffle you):
Since the media already seems to have forgotten about the pile of rubble formerly known as Fallujah, here’s a site with lots of graphic photos of the aftermath (warning - links to disturbing content).
The [...]
Q: How can you tell when US soldiers want to go home?
A: When they spend an hour and a half killing eight policemen and blasting the shit out of a hospital.
(For the best report I’ve read of the incident, read Robert Fisk’s article “A hail of bullets, a trail of dead, and a mystery the [...]
Quiz time! Which two of the following Iraqi buildings have US troops protected from looters and arsonists?
Ministry of Planning
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Irrigation
Ministry of Trade
Ministry of Industry
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Culture
Ministry of Information
Baghdad Archaeological Museum
Hospitals
Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Oil
Hint: they’re not subtle about their priorities. You’ll find the answer in Robert Fisk’s article on [...]
New York radio station WNYC has created The Art of War, an online gallery of their listners/visitors artistic takes on the current war on Iraq. Both pro- and anti-war viewspoints are represented in photographs, paintings, editorial cartoons and digital animation.
The Digital Journalist, a showcase for photojournalism, is exhibiting some powerful photographs of the Iraq war [...]
Got a bit bored yesterday, so knocked these together…
Smartline: Kent’s War on Saddam
Arse-Covering:
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Last week, there were explosions in two Baghdad markets. On Wednesday, the first bombing killed 14 civilians; the second, two days later, killed 62 Iraqis. The Independent’s reporter Robert Fisk arrived at the scene shortly after the second explosion and filed a graphic account of the carnage caused by the bomb. Almost immediately, the British [...]
As Baghdad was plunged into darkness, John Irvine reports that the American forces are now at Saddam International Airport, (metaphorically) buying their Baghdad A-Zs. But as Irvine says,
The Americans and British may say their motivation is to liberate the Iraqis, but these people gave every impression that they were prepared to die for their country.
I’m [...]
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