- Does the New York Times, and Western media, really understand where the power lies in Iran? Clue: Probably not.
- World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz runs his organisation like the US government. Ie. Corrupt.
- The UK Mirror reports: “Some 200,000 guns the US sent to Iraqi security forces may have been smuggled to terrorists, it was feared yesterday.”
- The New York Times is about start ‘personalised news’. Not such a good idea…
- Strong evidence that an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal is as cluey as…the Murdoch press that republished it.
- The trial of Saddam Hussein continues, and various voices in the Arab world offer their interpretations.
- After UN peacekeepers sexually exploited women in Congo, similar behaviour may be occurring in Liberia.
- The most senior judge in NSW takes a swipe at the “lynch mob” of politicians and commentators advocating tougher sentences.
It’s pretty obvious the Wolfowitz is using his new positino to continue his ideological project of scorching the Middle East.
I read months ago that a lot fo good people had left the World Bank and that hw was already bringing in his cronies.