Sunday news dump
Sunday = mind numbing tedium = "What's going on in the world"
This weeks collection of articles is heavily weighted towards the Middle-East powder keg.
A first article from the Grauniad/Observer stable looking at the growing disatisfaction within Bliars' cabinet : ... The Observer can also reveal that at a cabinet meeting before Blair left for last Friday's Washington summit with President George Bush, minister after minister pressed him to break with the Americans and publicly criticise Israel over the scale of death and destruction.
Haaretz and the statement from Nasrallah : Hezbollah threatens to launch missiles at central Israeli cities + Isreal is working at the behest of the Grand Satan ... well, o.k, he doesn't actually say Grand Satan, but you get the gist.
Over to the Telegraph, where we learn that Israel is inching closer to an escalation of things after a series of tit for tat actions on the Lebanese/Syrian border and the 'revelation' that the new Hezbollah missiles were made by Syria .... this is from the Murdoch empire .. just sayin', y'know...
According to Wapo, all of this has reignited the Atlantic schisme over how the Middle East should be dealt with : "Many officials said they worry about backlashes in their own restive Muslim and Arab communities." + "Many people here say that if a force is deployed, it must not be led by the NATO alliance. "NATO is perceived, whether we like it or not, as the armed wing of the West," Chirac said in an interview this week with the French newspaper Le Monde. "Consequently, in terms of its image, NATO is not the right organization here."
Onto Iraqinam : our favorite antihero, George Galloway, has a new article carried by Knight Ridder where he denounces the stupidity of the Shrub administration for trying to rob Peter to pay Paul by repatriating troops stateside, building up forces in and around Baghdad and so leaving unstable areas open to control of the resistance fighters, all of which just in time for the november elections ... i detect shades of Saigon here ...
Two troubling articles to close with : preparations for war in: Iran, courtesy of Rolling Stone and Asia Times online brings us The U.S - too late for empire
This weeks collection of articles is heavily weighted towards the Middle-East powder keg.
A first article from the Grauniad/Observer stable looking at the growing disatisfaction within Bliars' cabinet : ... The Observer can also reveal that at a cabinet meeting before Blair left for last Friday's Washington summit with President George Bush, minister after minister pressed him to break with the Americans and publicly criticise Israel over the scale of death and destruction.
Haaretz and the statement from Nasrallah : Hezbollah threatens to launch missiles at central Israeli cities + Isreal is working at the behest of the Grand Satan ... well, o.k, he doesn't actually say Grand Satan, but you get the gist.
Over to the Telegraph, where we learn that Israel is inching closer to an escalation of things after a series of tit for tat actions on the Lebanese/Syrian border and the 'revelation' that the new Hezbollah missiles were made by Syria .... this is from the Murdoch empire .. just sayin', y'know...
According to Wapo, all of this has reignited the Atlantic schisme over how the Middle East should be dealt with : "Many officials said they worry about backlashes in their own restive Muslim and Arab communities." + "Many people here say that if a force is deployed, it must not be led by the NATO alliance. "NATO is perceived, whether we like it or not, as the armed wing of the West," Chirac said in an interview this week with the French newspaper Le Monde. "Consequently, in terms of its image, NATO is not the right organization here."
Onto Iraqinam : our favorite antihero, George Galloway, has a new article carried by Knight Ridder where he denounces the stupidity of the Shrub administration for trying to rob Peter to pay Paul by repatriating troops stateside, building up forces in and around Baghdad and so leaving unstable areas open to control of the resistance fighters, all of which just in time for the november elections ... i detect shades of Saigon here ...
Two troubling articles to close with : preparations for war in: Iran, courtesy of Rolling Stone and Asia Times online brings us The U.S - too late for empire
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