The Israeli military continues to kill civilians, including women and children, with impunity. They’ve killed children with sniper fire, women with high-caliber rounds packed with hundreds of tiny sharp steel darts known as flechettes, and they’ve riddled people with multiple rounds leaving them in the street to bleed to death. There needs to be a zero-tolerance policy towards violence of any sort. It is ridiculous that while we wage a war on ‘terror’ murderous goons in uniforms chew up human life with technological efficiency and such uniform pitilessness. In the case of Israeli, these murderers are our closest allies.
- Argentina: Another IMF debacle. Buchanan makes some excellent points here.
- Crime’s newest cash of choice? — on the appeal of the Euro
- Corporate money-laundering
- Machinations of the secret government: “With the accusations that have accumulated, the spectre of European law has been tormenting MI6 for over a year now. On top of that there is the rising scandal of Echelon. The British secret government, dominated by MI6 and the CIA head of station in Grosvenor Square, is incompatible with the modus operandi of the European Union, and legal bust-ups with Europe are looming on the horizon.
It was therefore no surprise that a Republican delegation led by Senator Phil Gramm slipped into London last summer to visit the ‘unelectable’ William Haig and propose British membership of NAFTA. The secret government was hoping to solve its problems by getting Blair out and reversing Britain out of Europe and into NAFTA. Master cooks themselves, they will have no qualms about cohabiting with the Bush administration (which is run by shysters who have cooked everything from the Florida electoral rolls to the US Supreme Court).
“ - The global elite are extremely vulnerable to attack. Hence the recent crackdown on terrorism and the obsession with RMA and assymetric warfare. They are like the giant spiders in The Hobbit with their soft underbellies. The war on terror is a necessary consequence of the intersection of their growing power and influence while technological innovation speeds communication and information.
- Media consolidation: Views from Ani Difranco, Phil Donahue, and others.