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Former New York Times reporter and consummate insider, Judith Miller, is still “sorry” about those “wrong” stories on Iraq, but defends her journalism: “I am deeply sorry that the President was given a national intelligence estimate which concluded that Saddam Hussein had biological and chemical weapons and a active weapons programme.” She says she checked…

Australian Time journalist Michael Ware discusses lunching with delusional Democrat Joe Lieberman in Iraq: “I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he’s completely lost the plot or he knows he’s spinning…

Former Israeli Prime Minster, war criminal and Labor Party chairman, Shimon Peres, is leaving his old party and joining Ariel Sharon. “I held talks with him [Sharon] and I am convinced that he is determined to continue the peace process”, Peres said. “I was informed that he is open to creative ideas to attain peace…

During my travels in Sri Lanka in early 2005 – the photo above is a taste – I saw the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami, the almost devastation of the tourist industry and a country struggling to rebuild. The civil war within the country still rages, though less intensely than in years past. Child…

Rupert Murdoch likes war. Before the Iraq invasion, he praised the bravery of Tony Blair and George W. Bush and said the price of oil would be one of the war’s major achievements. “The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20…