Posted in Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Non-Violence, Political, Violence, War, tagged Hezbollah, Israel, Nassan Hazrallah, Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Nassan Hazrallah the militant leader of Hezbollah (you would have thought it would be unnecessary to describe a Hezbollah leader as ‘militant’ really) has warned Israel that his group are ready for “open war” with Israel after the killing of one of it’s leaders in Syria. Imad Mughniyeh was killed in a car bombing 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 Iran, US Politics, World on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
It had to happen, the law of averages demanded it. This morning I woke up to good news for once.
Gilllian Gibbons, she of the tactlessly named bear, was released from jail and officially pardoned by the President of Sudan.
Whilst this is a sentence which should never have been issued in the first place, and indeed [...]
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Posted in Iran, Unionism on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Reuters reported today that a dissident labour leader has been jailed for five years for the gross and shocking crime of “distributing statements against the system”. Quite why they didn’t just execute him and have done with it I’ll never know, I mean people who speak against the system are quite obviously dangerous wouldn’t you [...]
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Of all statistics the telephone poll is one of the most often quoted as a statement of universal fact, and often the most likely to be wrong.
The latest poll conducted by Zogby International (just the name man, just the name is enough) concluded that 53% of Americans believed that the US would be involved in [...]
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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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