Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Bush’s sins are back to haunt him
The political world that President Bush inhabited for the last six years -- the one he ruled, has just come to an end. (The mid-term poll results are a sign of things to come for the 2008 presidential elections) After his Party’s disgraceful defeat in the U.S. Congressional mid-term elections,...
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A Guilty Verdict on America, as Well
Now we are to give the Iraqi people bread and circuses, the final hanging of Saddam, twisting, twisting slowly in the wind. We have won. By Robert Fisk So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best friend in the Arab world. America...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Venezuela, Bush's Next Oil War??
Bush’s woes just keep piling up on him. (A silhouette of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez) Further worsening the position of the U.S. President, struggling as his people vote for the mid-term congressional elections, the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro,...
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Iraq’s divisions reinforced
Massive protests broke out across Iraqi towns and cities as soon as the death sentence against the toppled President Saddam Hussein was announced yesterday, with Sunnis denouncing the verdict, and Shias hailing it “a victory for justice” (Shia residents chant anti-Saddam slogans in a street in...
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Israel kills 50 Palestinians in 6 days
A 17-year-old Palestinian student has been killed in an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahiya, part of a massive Israeli military campaign has left 50 Palestinians and one soldier dead in six days in the northern Gaza Strip, medical officials said. (Palestinian men carry a critically wounded man into...
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Monday, November 6, 2006
Chomsky discovers roots of terrorism
“The problem lies in the unwillingness to recognize that your own terrorism is terrorism” -Noam Chomsky As the U.S. crucial congressional elections draw near, the debate over the U.S. President’s decision to invade Iraq and his so-called “war on terror” gets heated. The American academic Noam...
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Profile: Saddam Hussain
The former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, was born on April 28, 1937, in the village of Al-Awja near Tikrit, north of Baghdad. (Saddam's opponents weren't able to nominate anyone else who might hold Iraq together) While a teenager, Saddam immersed himself in the anti-British and anti-Western...
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Sunday, November 5, 2006
Was the Timing of Saddam's Verdict Rigged for Bush?
After a three-month wait, the judges in the first trial of the former Iraqi President over crimes against humanity delivered their verdict today, just two days ahead of the crucial U.S. mid-term congressional elections. (A vendor shows a watch with a picture of the former Iraqi President at a shop...
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U.S.-influenced court sentences Saddam to death
The Iraqi High Tribunal sentenced the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to hang for his role in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a Shia town. "God is great!" "Long live Iraq"- Saddam shouted. His half brother and intelligence chief Barzan al-Tikriti and another senior official in the former...
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Saturday, November 4, 2006
Bush: A threat to world peace
As the world awaits a verdict against the toppled Iraqi leader for crimes he committed against humanity, with some expecting a death sentence on Saddam Hussein would deliver "victor's justice," the debate over whether Saddam did pose a threat against the world in general and America in particular...
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