February 2003
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By Robert Fisk on February 19, 2003
A million march in London but, faced with disaster, the Arabs are like mice Could anything be more pathetic than the Arab demonstration against war? A million Britons marched in London, more than half a million Spaniards in Madrid; 200,000 in Paris and New York. And Cairo? Well, just 600 Egyptians turned up in their [...]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 19, 2003
So you wonder why so many Canadians are opposed to the U.S. plans to attack Iraq? It’s not that we’re weak-kneed wimps of Canuckistan, or bleeding-heart pacifists, or saps who actually believe Saddam, to repeat some of the more boorish epithets. Whatever our other reasons for opposing the war, we’re also skeptics, remembering the long [...]
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By Robert Fisk on February 19, 2003
In Austin, Texas, Robert Fisk sees at first hand the vast gulf between the pro- and anti-war movements in the United States
Posted in Iraq
By Robert Fisk on February 19, 2003
We are tired of being lied to. Tired of being talked down to, of being fed with false information and student essays dressed up as “intelligence”.
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on February 17, 2003
Posted in September 11
By on February 17, 2003
Only once before have I eaten a breakfast as good as the breakfast in Abu Ahmed’s coffee shop in Qalqilya and that was five years ago in Yemen. Abu Ahmed’s is not a fancy place; quite the reverse. It is where men gather to smoke a sheesha (hubble bubble), play cards, backgammon and draughts. They [...]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 17, 2003
12 February 2003 Isn’t it a strange coincidence that on the same day that British troops and armoured vehicles ring British airports, the Israelis ban Palestinians from entering Israel? Both are due, the media assures us, to an increased threat of terrorist attack. Yesterday and today US troops and missile launchers are deployed around Washington [...]
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on February 16, 2003
London’s Police Chief said it was the capital’s biggest ever demonstration with at least 750,000 taking part, while organisers put the figure closer to two million. Protesters also took to the streets in Glasgow, Belfast and a host of other cities across the Britain. As protesters gathered in London Prime Minister Tony Blair warned of [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on February 16, 2003
Once dismissed by experts as folklore, the release of photographic evidence has experts re-examining theories about the legendary continent of Mudalu
Posted in The Ancient Past
By on February 16, 2003
“The Israelis now possess all the nuclear secrets of the United States…Compared to this …the Jonathan Pollard(left) case is insignificant.”
Posted in Behind The "News"
By Robert Fisk on February 16, 2003
The inspections are going unhindered. And what does Bush tell us? ‘The signs are not encouraging’
Posted in Iraq
By on February 16, 2003
One by one, they pull themselves from there rotting graves. They are the gruesome remains of an earliar time, returning once more
Posted in Political Intrigue
By on February 16, 2003
EVEN before President Bush signed into law the Homeland Security Act this week, creating a governmental behemoth that swallows 22 existing agencies and turns them into one giant fist poised to crush civil liberties, the national media knew very well what the law that stitched together the new department meant. Here is what the Christian [...]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 16, 2003
“Evil is unreal…Sick and unwholesome, it resembles a dilapidated shed. Kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse!”
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 16, 2003
Canada’s Morons are reportedly outraged over Bush being likened to them. “He no moron”, said one, “we’re nice people.” But note the hand signal left
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on February 16, 2003
She talks about physics like it’s cooking. Yet the attractive 31 year old is being hailed as one of the world’s most promising physicists
Posted in Fringe Science, New Discoveries and Developments
By Robert Fisk on February 16, 2003
The Independent, December 1, 2002 Osama bin Laden is writing the script in the war against terror Time was when Bali would have been the story of the year, the most violent act in 12 months, to be recalled with horror in December as the most terrible of crimes. But Bali was just the story [...]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 16, 2003
The precise anatomy of the attacks only made it “appear” that Jews were the targets. Joe Vialls investigates
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 16, 2003
First Printed on Monday, April 29, 2002 Henry Kissinger’s dark past seems to be enclosing around him as various countries in South America and Europe have sought to question him about actions taken by the Nixon and Ford administrations in which Kissinger was National Security Adviser and Secretary of State respectively. The latest move to [...]
Posted in Hidden and Revisionist History
By on February 16, 2003
Secrecy and Private Forums Everywhere you look – government, big business and any other institution seeking to exercise power – the key is secrecy. Meetings such as those of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the G-8, World Trade Organisation, World Economic Forum, Central Banks, the European Union Council of Ministers and the [...]
Posted in The New World Order