23 July 2005
Christopher Howse: Islam in 10 steps
by mikepower
To explain Christianity in 10 short points would be no easy task, but as a cut-out-and-keep aide memoire, here are 10 things to know about Islam.
21 July 2005
General Westmoreland's Death Wish and the War in Iraq
by mikepower
After he died on Monday, front pages focused on the failures of William Westmoreland as commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam. Overall, the coverage faulted him for being a big loser, not a mass killer.
19 July 2005
Iraqi Casualties: Unnamed and Unnoticed
by mikepower
An in-depth look at how we have treated Iraqi civilian deaths by veteran war reporter Judith Coburn
13 July 2005
http://actualite.fluo.free.fr/wysiwyg/index.php?page=news%203
by hurlantenova
http://actualite.fluo.free.fr/wysiwyg/index.php?page=news%203
The Herald: Finished? Blair? Why, he is now the great leader reborn - by Iain Macwhirter
by mikepower
So, let us praise Tony Blair. He has a unique ability to communicate. You may not believe a word he says, but boy does he know how to say them.
09 July 2005
Brown's doleful role at Gleneagles: Mark Curtis
by mikepower
One might think that countries where poverty kills thousands every day have no obligations towards the rich
07 July 2005
06 July 2005
05 July 2005
Tony Parsons: PERHAPS ROCK CAN'T CHANGE THE WORLD..BUT LET'S KEEP ON TRYING
by mikepower
Did you not find yourself wondering, as I did, how much Bono paid for all that cosmetic dental work? Or were you too busy getting down to care?
Blair and Brown mock the march of people power: Jasper Gerard
by mikepower
You know the bottom has fallen out of the protest market when Bob Dylan flogs a seminal recording of A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall to Starbucks
With a song in their heart and not much at all in their heads: Simon Jenkins
by mikepower
We know we cannot “make poverty history”. This week we are trying to make it geography. Perhaps, just for once, we should make it economics.
03 July 2005
02 July 2005
Addicted to occupation: Bradley Burston
by mikepower
God, grant me the serenity to leave the places I can leave. Give me the courage to stand and defend the places I should. And the wisdom to know the difference.
26 June 2005
How the world's richest countries arm the poorest
by mikepower
In 2003 alone, the G8 countries exported arms worth $12bn (£6.6bn) to the developing world, and six of their number – the US, UK, France, Russia, Germany and Italy – lead the world’s top 10 arms suppliers.
25 June 2005
Joe Conason at Salon.com: Karl Rove is a liar and a scoundrel. He is not a patriot but a pure partisan, as his own record proved long before now.
by mikepower
In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.
24 June 2005
Two years on, the echoes of Vietnam are getting louder
by mikepower
American defeat in 1975 brought about Vietnamese unification, while American failure in Iraq will almost certainly precipitate that country's fragmentation.
