Category Archives: The War on Terra

The Ravel’s Bolero of ass-kickings

Posted on May 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Normally, Juan Cole likes to confine his blogging to just what it says up top: Informed Comment. And that’s what it is: loads of nice, fact-based analysis of what’s really going on in the Middle East and what it actually … Continue reading →

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No words needed

Posted on May 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker
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Wolfowitz Bank: yet another BushCo fuck-up

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Oh, the ignominy of seeing yet another imperial money machine get trashed! The World Bank has been accused of publishing false accounts and wasting money on ineffective medicines in its malaria treatment programme. A Lancet paper claims the bank faked … Continue reading →

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Kenny Boy is in the dock

Posted on April 24, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Finally. Do you suppose this is why the compliant media has trotted out yet another “Osama” tape?

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45 years ago in Cuba…

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Here’s another little snippet the CIA would rather we all forgot, courtesy of Prensa Latina: The smoke of the battle of Playa Giron dissipated 45 years ago when the Cuban people defeated the mercenary attack concocted by the US to … Continue reading →

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US Congresscritters find their gonads

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Well, some of them, anyhow. They’ve written a letter to Dubya, urging him to send known terrorist (and former CIA asset) Luis Posada Carriles back to Venezuela to face justice, and to refuse him citizenship in the United States.

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Too true to be truly funny

Posted on April 14, 2006 by Sabina Becker

This would be a good time to start rethinking all that, yes?

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I can think of many things worse

Posted on April 14, 2006 by Sabina Becker

I’m not sure in what spirit this article was written, but if it’s a spirit of regret for die Vergangenheit, the author really ought to reconsider. And count the blessings: For decades, Latin America was referred to as the United … Continue reading →

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They tip over in those desert winds…

Posted on April 12, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Surprise, surprise. Those WMD trailers BushCo used as their pretext to declare war on Iraq? Turns out there was nothing in ’em… On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for … Continue reading →

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There once was a man from Nantucket

Posted on April 11, 2006 by Sabina Becker
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