It’s been obvious almost from the beginning of the first Bush Administration that neither Bush nor his kitchen cabinet had much interest in or knowledge of the world outside the USA. They blundered from one embarrassment to another, screwing up or forgetting funny foreign names, confusing Sunnis and Shiites (that’s after the penny finally dropped […]

John McCain has floated a few weird ideas over the last few years, since he decided the way to succeed George W Bush was to stop this half-hearted warmongering and get in boots and all, but the weirdest has been this ‘league of democracies’ he keeps talking about. He first announced it last year, perhaps […]

Has the Iraq invasion made the world safer, as George W suggests?
Well one thing it certainly seems to have done is to encourage a new arms race around the world. Russia has resumed long-distance bomber flights and occasional buzzing of American warships, presumably to remind the yanks that it’s not a completely toothless nation […]

Great guest editorial here from William R Polk outlining the implications of the USA’s blundering actions in the Middle East and the relentless efforts of the latest ‘Manifest Destiny’ crowd to rule the world. Since charm hasn’t worked, it’s time to use force.
The strategy behind these operations is what the Neoconservative advisers to President Bush […]

Everybody knows - because we’ve been told countless times by various members of the Bush Administration - that Iran is the greatest threat to the peace of the world since Napoleon or possibly Genghis Khan. What’s more, Iran is the evil shape in the Iraqi shadows, supporting insurgents who have been responsible for the deaths […]

I had to laugh at this comment from Hideki Moronuki, the Japanese Fisheries Agency’s chief of whaling today:
He said the pair would also be given an opportunity to try whale meat while aboard the ship, if they chose.
Ah, yes. I try this tactic on my son almost every night: “But how do you know you […]

So as 2007 rolls to an end, George W Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ is a sad joke, noteworthy mainly for the millions of innocent lives that have been lost or shattered in the USA’s juvenile efforts to impose its will upon other people by force of arms. It’s reached the pathetic stage where the situation […]

Not much of a surprise that Al Qaeda would deny responsibility for the assassination, given that helping destabilise the Pakistani Government is surely much more useful to them than just snaring bragging rights. But what the spokesperson for the Al Qaeda militant Baitullah Mehsud, suspected of being behind the killing, said today is just unbelievable:
“I […]

The Opposition is warning that the Government’s plans to involve our navy in a bit of whalewatching might lead to hostilities with Japan:
“I would be very concerned about sending war assets, warships and air force planes down to look at the Japanese whaling fleet in terms of how is that going to escalate the diplomatic […]

It’s a scary thought that the world has 12 more months of living in nervous anticipation of another act of madness from the Bush Administration before it is finally turfed out of office. Nowhere has the nature of Bush’s foreign policy been more starkly revealed than in the way he created a ‘crisis’ out of […]