By WENN world entertainment news - Monday, June 9 11:20 am
From www.yahoo.co.uk.
“Outspoken actor Rupert Everett has sparked fury from British soldiers after branding them “whining wimps” who are “pathetic” compared to recruits in the days of Victorian Britain.
The Stardust actor, whose own father was a major in the British Army, made the controversial comments in a [...]
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Posted in Anti-War on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
The problem with war is that it is such an attractive concept to those primal instincts to go kill, destroy and plunder and given the penchant that mankind has for frequently tearing itself to shreds it is unfortunately a regular practice to resort to.
So.
The job of the Anti War movement is to somehow undercut such an [...]
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Posted in Anti-War, Iraq, Violence, War on February 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I thought I should quickly add that the death toll from the Market place bombings in Iraq on Friday has now risen to nearly 100, twice the original estimate. No surprise given the extent of the injuries recieved by many people who did not have the luck to die instantly.
Additionally a particularly atrocious factor in [...]
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The interesting developments in the US political campaign are still nondescript enough to forestall any predictions from me. If I had to put money on it I’d go with the Polls and back Barack Obama, but I feel this could just be me putting my money with my hopes and risking losing both.
The issue of [...]
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Posted in Anti-War, Disillusion, Government, Iraq, PNAC, Patriotism, Political, Society, Terrorism, UK politics, US Politics, Violence, War, World, democracy on December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
My feelings on those who direct the armed forces into situations in which their lives are at risk are mixed but always strong, that President Bush has the guts to face the people that his war has maimed is something I guess.
These pictures are from President Bush’s visit to Brooke army medical centre in San [...]
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Posted in Anti-War, Iraq, Non-Violence, Political, UK politics, Violence, War, tagged Amistice Day, Faith, Remembrance Sunday on November 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Here in the UK we’re gearing up for Armistice day and Remembrance Sunday, and on most people you’ll see a poppy.
Talking to the volunteer as I bought my Poppy I was reminded as I always am in such situations of what a difficult, dangerous and largely unappreciated job that service personnel actually do, and its [...]
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Posted in Anti-War, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Political, Speculation, Terrorism, UK politics, US Politics, Violence, War on October 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Here is something you probably won’t find being reported in the mainstream media (I could be wrong; most of the time I am) according to the FARS News Agency www.farsnews.ir; the Mashad, Fardowsi University in Northeast Iran, has extended an invitation to President Bush to perform a public lecture in a similar vein to that [...]
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In todays Independent I read a report by Robert Fisk which brought to light the destruction of archeological sites across Iraq and ancient Mesopotamia, it seems that in the absence of any real authority in the region, looters have taken over sites in an effort to recover artifacts for sale on the black market.
Cities such [...]
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I was confronted with this piece of information because I happened to cast an eye across the columns beneath the celebrity obsessed prattling of the main Yahoo page.
That it made it into the sub headlines is a clear indication that the amount of celebrities doing stupid things like marry their pet tortoise or announce their [...]
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