Monthly Archives: March 2003

In a speech on Sunday, Secretary of State Colin Powell gave further clues as to who will be next on the Bush administration’s list for disarmament, a.k.a. regime change. While it would appear more likely that Syria would be next due to their “support” of the “Iraqi regime”, it is quite possible that Powell started [...]

There has been much speculation over the past few days on the progress of the current conflict. Many journalists are questioning the administration’s official reports that everything is going according to plan and reports from the front are not too reassuring. New reports now indicate that Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defense Secretary, may have been [...]

Nearly two months ago, a resolution to repeal last year’s authorization of the use of force against Iraq was introduced in Congress as HJ Res. 20. Not surprisingly the media has not given this resolution much attention, if any.

While it has been obvious for a long time now that the corporate media are often nothing more than venues for the government’s propaganda, there is now proof that Clear Channel Communications, the parent company of a huge number of radio stations across the country who has been organizing many pro-war rallies, has direct ties [...]

Ever since the war started there has been a lot of backpedalling in the media, counteracting their drive to be the first to report news items. Polizeros has a good entry on this.

This article from last week’s NYT gives voice to some of the concerns some CIA analysts have had in reagards to analyzing intelligence. For some time now, they have been concerned that they are not able to do their jobs well if they are forced to conform to standards set by the Bush administration. In [...]

I may have mentioned this before, but I believe it is important to repeat that plans for an invasion of Iraq had existed way before the media or the public took any notice of them. Some of the most important documents regarding this are featured here.

You may have heard the phrase “Support the troops – bring them home!” a lot during the past few weeks and wondered how on earth that could make sense when there’s a war in progress. This article explains some of the logic behind the statement. Ever since the post-WWII era, US veterans have been inadequately [...]

The US government has often mentioned “the coalition of the willing” when trying to drum up support for their unjust war on Iraq. As it turns out, most of the nations allegedly supporting the US government did not have much of a choice in the matter as many of them depend on favors from the [...]

While it remains unclear to what degree Dick Cheney’s former corporate home, Halliburton, will be profiting from the war on Iraq, it has emerged that they are already profiting from the government’s wars in various places by carrying out support operations for the military.

Many celebrities who have spoken out against the war on Iraq over the past few weeks have quickly been dismissed by the right as “unpatriotic” Americans that lack knowledge of the situation at hand. Sean Gonsalves at Alternet came up with eleven reasons why those actors should not be dismissed as stars looking for more [...]

Although I’m sure they have been used quite frequently during this conflict, CNN today included a new mention of the use of DU containing missiles: “Meanwhile, a U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber dropped two satellite-guided “bunker-buster” bombs Thursday on a target in Baghdad, shaking a large area and shrouding parts of the city in [...]

Even though major news sites seem to be very much on the ball they appear to offer little critical evaluation of the progress of the war so far. As in addition to this ZU news is not meant to be a blow-by-blow account of the atrocities, I can only recommend warblogging.com‘s analysis “Day Six of [...]

While we here in the US had the mostly uneventful Oscars, the Brits have announced the nominees for their Big Brother awards. London mayor Livingstone won an award for ‘Worst Public Servant’ for his failure to solve London traffic congestion problems and Bush’s lapdog Blair won the award for ‘Lifetime Menace’ for his imitation of [...]

After it emerged that Iraqi soldiers had taken US troop members as prisoners the US government immediately condemned their actions as a violation of the Geneva convention. Funny isn’t it that when the US takes prisoners of war in Afghanistan it’s all legit as it’s done in the name of “the war on terror” but [...]

A recent study by FAIR further proved that the idea of a liberal American media is nothing more than a creation of certain disgruntled conservatives that would love all media outlets to adopt the tone of Fox “News”. The study found that none of the media studied presented a balanced view of the Iraq conflict [...]

It looks like the assumptions about the next targets in Bush’s endless war were right. According to a statement made by the North Korean government, the US administration may be planning a pre-emtive attack on them.

It appears that the government really does not trust peace activists to protest peacefully and excercise their rights freely. An article on last weeks peace rally in New York City in the New York Times orginally contained a few sentences on snipers and undercover policemen being among the crowd. One has to remember of course [...]

With the war on Iraq now underway, I can’t help but wonder what nation will be next. Some suggest it will be either Iran, Syria or North Korea.

Although he has not been an employee of Halliburton for years now, Vice pResident Dick Cheny is still on their payroll. One could argue that the money he recieves is merely a “deferred compensation” package, as the article puts it, but seeing as Halliburton’s profits have soared since Cheney’s entrance into the White House, there [...]

It appears that the movement the US administration has been ignoring has picked up again. According to this article, Al Quaeda has started to recruit larger numbers of members again as the anger against the US government is rising.

MSN’s Slate has an interesting new article on George Bush’s newest illegal war. It deals with the fact that Bush’s doctrine of pre-emptive attacks sets a dangerious precedent in that it is a situation in which “the president can start a war against anyone at any time, and no one has the right to stop [...]

If anyone needs further proof that corporate media are too much aligned with the official PR releases from the White House they need to look no further than this MSNBC poll, which asks if protesting is “un-American”. I once again wonder when the last time was such people took a look at the Bill of [...]

In another NYT op-ed from last week, Roger Morris illustrated how Gulf War II is just the latest conflict in a long line of regime changes in Iraq orchestrated by the US government.

In an editorial from last week, NYT author Paul Krugman writes about the way in which the Bush administration seems to have lost touch with reality in their quest to dispose of Saddam Hussein at all costs. Examples are how they have largely ignored the situation with North Korea and the economy at home while [...]

As large scale attacks begin in Iraq, hundreds and thousands of people have been protesting worldwide, some more and some less peacefully. In related news, it has emerged that at a recent press conference, Bush admitted that he knows of no link between Saddam and Bin Laden.

In what has been the heaviest bombing of Iraq so far, US forces have started to make use of nuclear weapons. The so-called “bunker busters” are depleted uranium filled missilies which are used due to their ability to penetrate bunkers with ease. The allies have also stated that no targets will be off limit. Quote: [...]

While yesterdays “decapitation attacks” were unsuccessful, the US army has apparently also been busy staging yet another search for Bin Laden over in Afghanistan. Of course, those events just happened to coincide… Funny isn’t it how Bin Laden’s back in the picture as soon as the administration becomes less popular. In other news, further protests [...]

So this was it, Bush’s case, cut down to a few minutes of yet another macho portrayal of what he sees as a strictly black and white issue. Bush reiterated that they will have no mercy and were aiming for a short conflict in order to reduce the chances of more terrorist acts at home [...]

Only a short time after my last posting it is now official: The hostilities have begun. Let us see if Bush has anything new to say in 5 minutes…

Despite the fact that the US government has not an official statement yet and the main initial offense has not officially begun yet, it is quite clear that the conflict as such has started, especially if that start can be seen in the troop movements.

It seems the string of resignations in the British parliament is far from over: “Shadow environment minister Jonathan Sayeed, shadow home affairs minister Humfrey Malins and shadow health minister John Baron all left their posts on Tuesday.” Also, Tony Blair effectively admitted that Saddam Hussein is no threat to any of the pro war nations: [...]

It has emerged that, as I predicted, Bush’s rhetoric of Saddam going into exile improving his situation was just an empty promise. While the US government still clings on to this false PR idea, it is obvious that they are intent on going in to save their oil interests no matter what.

Tonight, George Bush gave what was long feared as being his “war speech“. In what was estimated to be 13 minutes (by the BBC), he summed up all the misinformation and lies he and his administration have been spreading with the help of the corporate mass media to effectively tell the world that he and [...]

As the war inches closer, some say it may only be 72 hours off now, Robin Cook, leader of the British House of Commons and former UK foreign secretary, has resigned from his post due to Tony Blair’s support of the US government. It is events like this that should be a clear sign to [...]