Pre-emptive News – the news reporting technique that has been used by several newspapers in reporting the war. Take the following stories: Two British soldiers being executed by Saddam’s forces The reports of a civilian uprising in Basra The discovery of a huge chemical weapons plant The biggest tank battle since the second world war…

In saturdays mornings Guardian ‘Weekend’ magazine : “Spectre orange – Nearly 30 years after the Vietnam war, a chemical weapon used by US troops is still exacting a hideous toll on each new generation.” It is accompanied by some awful pictures of horrifically deformed children. The photos are not on the web site. Bush and…

From surgenet.org: A knower of truth does what is called for, then stops He uses his strength but does not force things fully choose to do what you must do ….this is to live without forcing to overcome without conquering. –Lao Tzu I checked my site messages yesterday and Ben Poole had left a particularly…

How do I miss such obvious double standards? The Guardian today points out that the US have scant regard for international law and yet when captured US servicemen are shown on TV they start quoting the Geneva Convention? Hmmm. Why am I surprised? I think I’ve recovered from the weekends party – I’m still trying…

The other day I said that the war was about securing oil for future generations. That was before I found a rather interesting line of reasoning that argues that the motives are more about an economic conflict between the US and Europe. It’s a long article. So, in a nutshell, it is related to a…

Mahatma Gandhi said: “The science of war leads one to dictatorship pure and simple. The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy”. I’ve been thinking about what our democracy really means in the light of so many democratic processes being ignored because they are inconvenient to the means of our political leaders.…

St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great, who asked him “how he dares molest the sea.” “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called…

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I…

George W = Claim Jumper ahhh, I’m easy like a Sunday morning. And far out – my niece Hannah starts school tomorrow. Jeez I can’t believe that! It was only yesterday that she was born. I remember thinking at the time that it would seem like no time had passed until she started school. Fark.

Why is it that every time a republican gets elected as the president of the US, they start a war?