Johns Hopkins researchers have provided an update of their two-year-old survey of deaths in post-invasion Iraq. An estimated 654.000 more Iraqis died after the invasion than would have died in a comparable period before.
Jaarlijkse archieven: 2006
That Axis of Evil
When George W. Bush made his first State of the Union Address “Speech to the Nation” in January 2002, he deployed the expression “axis of evil”. Thanks to his own foreign policy, Bush helped bring his own nightmare to life. But the president’s biggest act of axis-enhancement was tying up our military in Iraq and …
Movie to make millionaires of lost Mexico fishermen
Three Mexicans who spent nine months drifting across the Pacific Ocean in a flimsy fishing boat eating raw fish and sea birds are to be paid at least $3,8 million to turn their story into a movie.
Hiroshima resets “peace clock” after NK nuclear test
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum’s Peace Watch Tower, which records the number of days since the last nuclear test. On October 10, one day after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test, the clock was reset.
O’Reilly: North Korea wants to influence the November election
Neo-cons in the US are having a great time exploiting the ‘explosive situation’ in North Korea. The more spin they can add to their newsbulletins, the merrier. Bill O’Reilly is one of many nitwits who thinks America really is the center of the universe: the reason North Korea is causing trouble is that it wants to influence the November election.