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Category Archives: International Affairs
Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel: Are the US and Israel Planning a Broader Middle East War?
January 13, 2009 – 2:18 pm
Europe is failing two life-and-death tests. We must act together, now
January 9, 2009 – 12:44 pm
Weak, divided, incoherent, hypocritical and infuriating – that’s how you hear the EU described privately in Beijing and Washington. The events of this first week of 2009 suggest that its critics are right. By Timothy Garton Ash.
Look at the mess we’re in. Europe faces two acute crises that threaten both our interests and our values. The [...]
I know nothing at first hand about Gaza so I should stop commenting . . . . . . .
January 8, 2009 – 9:56 am
. . .and it would be a good idea if other people did the same. However, I do know a bit about media. It is pointless of Israel to complain about the possible bias of quoted ’sources in Gaza’ from the world’s news gatherers if they employ totalitarian tactics (selectively used by the US in [...]
Jerusalem Post reports 'no international pressure to end op' (Gaza ethnic cleansing)
December 29, 2008 – 5:21 pm
“After all, who remembers the Armenians?” (Adolph Hitler). By John J Kelly.
Israel is feeling “no real pressure” from the world to end the operation in the Gaza Strip, and the amount of time the international community will sit relatively quietly on the sidelines depends on how things develop, senior diplomatic officials said Sunday. According to [...]
Update: Israeli F-16s blitz Gaza in a run-up to the February elections
December 27, 2008 – 11:29 am
Forget about sending aid – the previous post has unfortunately been rendered redundant by the news that Israel has attacked Hamas-run security compounds in Gaza, killing hundreds of civilians and wounding others – including the almost-obligatory deaths of two small girls allegedly killed by Hamas – in the process. See Gaza attacks. Although rocket attacks have [...]
Ignoring India's poverty is a recipe for nuclear Armageddon
December 19, 2008 – 3:14 pm
Thank God for George Bush. He laughs in the face of fear as he gives more nukes to the country with the most hungry people in it. And the funny bit is that despite parts of the American Christian right actually jockeying for Armegeddon, he probably achieved all this by mistake, and in the process he [...]
It's Sunday, so it must be Islamabad
December 14, 2008 – 4:37 pm
UPDATE: They seek him here, they seek him there. Gordon Brown has moved on to Pakistan, wearing the same suit and tie, where he has applied pressure to allow the Metropolitan Police to ‘interview’ one or more of the Mumbai bombing suspects. The strategy is simple. Render them to London, buy them an Oyster Card and invite [...]
Now Gordon has spun off to Afghanistan – make that Pakistan (see above)
December 13, 2008 – 5:16 pm
. . . . “I’ll put a girdle about the earth in forty minutes” Puck, Midsummer Night’s Dream
We heard this morning that UK Gordon Brown has broken off his constructive discussions with EU leaders to appear in Afghanistan to mourn the death of four British soldiers, killed in two bomb incidents, one where a 13 [...]
European Court rules UK DNA database an abuse of Human Rights
December 5, 2008 – 11:51 am
By John J Kelly
On December 4 2008 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the practice of holding DNA samples of more than 1 million UK citizens, some as young as 10 years old, who have no criminal record but who have been investigated in the course of police enquiries, is contrary to Article 8. Britain [...]