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Democracy fights back

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

There’s another China post coming, but I’ve been a bit lazy about finishing the translation in after-work hours. The Humanaught is to blame for my latest procrastination after he recommended John Pilger’s latest documentary, The War on Democracy. I remembered that recommendation last night, so I headed off here. And, well, that was that for […]

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Recall

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

NEWSFLASH: Mattel issued an urgent recall on Monday of its Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization plastic doll series after the battery-powered talking toys were found to have too much lead in their speeches.
On a more sensible note, the Power and Interest News Report gives a brief history of the SCO and concludes that the […]

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War and peace - the Blair years

Monday, June 25, 2007

Tony Blair said:
May 1997:
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. That is a prize beyond value…

December 1998:
Earlier today, I gave authority for UK forces to be deployed against Iraq.
Operation Desert Fox was launched at 10 […]

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Doesn’t it make you proud?

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

144 countries are party to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment. One of those countries is the United States of America. The Convention begins:
Article 1
1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, […]

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