In Place of Fear

It's not what you spend, It's the way that you spend it Public Debt’s not the Devil and Balanced Budgets are no Cure-All Going into ...

Want to reduce our national debt by making real "efficiency savings"? Scrap PFIs and PPPs then - and arms Export Credit Guarantees...

De Ja Vu in Baghdad New attacks in Iraq are not down to ‘die-hards’ any more than they were in 2004 –They’re caused by unemployment, poverty...

One thing Ahmadinejad’s right about – and Desmond Tutu agrees Israel is racist in its treatment of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians The Irania...

What they never wrote down The Bush administration torture memos Obama released don’t mention any of the worst methods of torture used The m...

Rules must be binding on us and our allies as well as our enemies "Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean ...

Correction - : Obama may not be continuing Clinton administration rendition to countries that torture I wrote in my last blog post that the ...

President Obama has stated that his aim is a world free of nuclear weapons, beginning with a treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons ...

Tony Blair has finally said something I can support him on, however much I revile his past actions. He’s called for and end to the Israeli a...

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni claims “Hamas controls Gaza and is responsible for everything that happens” there (1), (2). YetYuval Di...

Denial, Shouting ‘Look over there’ and saying ‘Hamas made us do it’ don’t cut it – both sides target civilians, with Israel’s greater fire-...

One of the least unsettling photos taken of Jenin after the Israeli attack on it in April 2002 - for more see Sandiego Indymedia here It’s b...

Pity it Tripled deaths from rocket attacks; but there are glimmers of hope We can all relax now that Operation Kill Children to Boost Poll R...