Thanks as always to Shirrin and Shadows for some of the links.
- With only a week until the Iraqi assembly election, Violence and fear is growing in Iraq ahead of next Sunday’s vote.
- Private memos are circulating in Washington, Baghdad and London setting out detailed scenarios for withdrawal of US and British forces from Iraq as early as possible, a Foreign Office source said yesterday. "Early" means sometime after June next year by the way...
- Meanwhile, Iraq’s interim prime minister Ayad Allawi warned today that it was "premature" to consider withdrawing British and American troops from his country.
- The British government wants no part in another war in the Middle East - Jack Straw has drawn up a dossier putting the case against a military attack on Iran.
- A major new national opinion survey of 1,608 American voters released this week shows that only 42 percent would support the U.S. invasion of Iran to stop its nuclear program.
- The Washington Times says Seymour Hersh should be arrested for espionage, simply for doing his job as an investigative reporter.
- In Pictures: Iraqi children witness killing of parents by U.S. occupation forces. As the Brits know only too well from Northern Ireland, it never matters why this stuff happens, it still creates a new generation of terrorists.
- News from through the Looking Glass: The three most common myths currently circulating about Iraq get deconstructed.
- From "Philosophy Now" magazine, an examination of Bush's ethics which concludes the President has "the level of moral development most often associated with 13 year olds."
- wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are but one part of a supposedly universal effort to create world order by "spreading democracy". Is this possible or is the idea simply dangerous?
- Does the US occupation of Iraq prevent civil war? Think again.
- A compelling analysis of the Blair-Brown rift, Brown's Britain, moves beyond personalities to the real issues - Brown is "natural heir to Labour reformers who, in past generations, have applied old principles to new conditions."
- Trying to project the political, economical and social state of the transatlantic relations between the Unites States and the European Union in the year 2020.
- In the UK, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly’s links with Opus Dei have made it one of the most talked-about religious groups of today.
- By illegally using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) against Iraq, Britain and America have gravely endangered not only the Iraqis but the whole world, says Britain's top radiation expert.
- Neoconservatives who played a leading role in shaping the radical trajectory of U.S. foreign policy after the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks appear increasingly divided on key issues and uncertain of their position in Bush’s second term.
- It's two days until 'Burn's Night' so...what have the Scots ever really done for us? Everything.
Quote of the Day:
A democratic people can face any adversity with fortitude, provided they believe their leaders are leveling with them, and not living in a fool's paradise.
Winston Churchill
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