Posts Tagged ‘TWAT’

RIP habeas corpus. RIP the presumption of innocence.
You might however consider whether you should not unfold as a background the great privilege of habeas corpus and trial by jury, which are the supreme protection invented by the English people for ordinary individuals against the state. The power of the Executive to cast a man into [...]

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 [...]

Seems like a good time to remind people to watch the final part of The Power of Nightmares on BBC2 at 9pm tonight.
The first part examined the origins of the Islamic fundamentalists and American neo-conservatives, and the second part looked at how they joined forces in Afghanistan. Tonight’s should be particularly interesting/depressing in the light [...]

I’m genuinely shocked, not to mention angry and a little scared, by the news that the Court of Appeal has ruled that evidence obtained by torture can be used in UK courts. In a 2 to 1 decision, Lord Justice Laws and Lord Justice Pill granted the Home Secretary the right to hold terror suspects [...]

Here’s a long-ish account demonstrating why you shouldn’t take photos of US landmarks if you’ve got brown skin.

This is just shocking: US is holding kids at Camp X-Ray.

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 [...]

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 [...]

“What democracy looks like.” — Tim Robbins

Yesterday millions of people around the globe protested against the war, in 603 cities as diverse as Moscow, Kiev, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lyon, Marseilles, Sofia, Brussels, Stuttgart, Toulouse, Thessaloniki, Warsaw, Bern, Paris, Mostar and Copenhagen. As the Independent put it, a groundswell of dissent encircles the globe. Some of the [...]