Showing all posts in June 2019

William Dalrymple, The Guardian, September 21: Six years after 9/11, throughout the Muslim world political Islam is on the march; the surprise is that its rise is happening democratically – not through the bomb, but the ballot box. Democracy is not the antidote to the Islamists the neocons once fondly believed it would be. Since…

While Keith Olbermann lashes the Bush administration’s politicisation of the military: Alive in Baghdad blog takes a trip around Baghdad Hospital’s children’s ward and reveals the effect of US and UK-dropped depleted uranium:

Jeremy Scahill, author of the incendiary book Blackwater, on private military contractors in the “war on terror”, speaks about the rise of this shadowy company (and here is his recent testimony before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee):

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York shortly to give a presentation at the UN General Assembly. The Islamic Republic is hardly known for its attention to human rights, but these statements by Zionist extremist and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz are simply insane: “He is an international war criminal. He has repeatedly violated…

Pretty futile when the Iraqi forces are only doing it 8% of the time.

While Turkey is currently engaged in a debate over whether to end the ban on head scarves in universities, the courts maintain an anti-democratic streak: For the second time in a year, a Turkish court ordered, on Tuesday September 18, to block access to YouTube.com over videos deemed insulting to the country’s leaders. The decision…