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Amnesty International 2005 Human Rights report and hypocrisy 2005/05/27
I imagine many people who accuse Amnesty International of hyperbole, hypocrisy and political self-interest fail to see these traits on a much more profound, damaging scale emenating out of Washington.

Bush 43b 2004/11/03
The reelection of George W Bush is the victory of an extremely well oiled machine that expertly exploited the politics of fear (of a war against terrorism mishandled), mindless patriotism (we are the US and have no peer or problem),...

Bush administration defeats global terrorism... reports 2005/04/18
For the past 19 years the US State Department has published an annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report. I've read a couple of these reports in the past and found them to be both informative and reasonably objective. The National...

Control Room 2005/04/07
Truth is a greasy pig.

Gun control and Switzerland 2006/10/19
Anti-gun control advocates in the United States often point to Switzerland as an example of a country that has high gun ownership and low violent crime rates to support the argument that tighter gun laws are not required. However there are structural and cultural reasons why such a comparison is not valid.

It's hard work - President Bush says so 2004/10/05
Just for the heck of it... Number of times President Bush used the words "hard" or "hardest" in the Kerry/Bush presidential debate......

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism 2005/01/05
Depressing....

Pahrump, Nevada, sticks it to Sorkin and the US Constitution 2006/11/21
In an ironic turn you wouldn't believe if it happened on TV, Pahrump has just confirmed every redneck, narrow-minded stereotype that Sorkin tried to repudiate only days ago in "Nevada Day".

Paper Clips 2006/10/04
The lessons of tolerance and diversity becomes powerful, not because of the sheer magnitude of the paper clips gathered (around 29 million at last count), but because of the personal stories that are revealed by those it touches.

Pavlov's bells - inauguration edition 2005/01/22
I didn't see the Bush 43b inauguration ceremony, but out of morbid curiosity downloaded the transcript of his address. Following up from my earlier post on the Pavlovian use of the words "free" and "freedom" in Bush's speeches: America defended...

Pavlov's bells - state of the union 2005 2005/02/03
The third in a series begun here and continued here. The number of times President Bush used the word "free" or "freedom" in his 2005 state of the union address:a free and sovereign Iraq (The very first sentence uses the...

Pavlov's bells in political speeches 2004/10/05
One of the things that has raised my hackles over the past few years is the way President Bush dispenses bromides to the public like Pavlovian bells, or Pavlovian casus belli as the case may be. I particularly resent the...

Recommended links - world affairs & politics 2005/01/24
Sites with a political/world affairs focus worth checking out: politics.slashdot (news and discussion)Politics section for this mother of all geek news aggregators. Rest assured all major and many interesting stories will make it here. The discussion can be filtered to...

Two to go 2005/01/19
And so, before even the second Bush term officially begins, Seymour Hersh reveals that Iran is the next target. I fear for the worst. More hypocrisy, more Orwellian rewriting of history, more needless death, more destabilisation of the geopolitical dynamic. If a strike (in whatever form) against Iran is considered successful, is there any doubt North Korea will be next, even if (or even because) it's the most difficult of the three "axis" countries to take on?

United States has no easy, short-term solutions in Iraq: Juan Cole 2005/05/26
Juan Cole has delivered a scathing assessment of why the United States has no easy, short-term solutions in Iraq.

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