Good news for social change in Saudi Arabia today: the kingdom's mufti, Sheik Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik, issued a statement saying that coercing women to marry was "un-Islamic" and "a major injustice." this from the CBC There is always all this talk that in order to bring democracy and "freedom" to a country, one has to rise …
War Crimes: Fallujah
As I've made clear to anyone who asks... I believe that the Iraq war was an illegal action that clearly went against International treaties and conventions signed by all parties involved in the Coalition. I am obviously not alone in that belief since even the Attorney General of Great Britain thought any action without a …
It was those Sad-damm spies!
The Washington Post has the goods today on Richard Perle and Wesley Clark being questioned on Iraq at the Senate Armed Services Committee. Perle being the NeoCon and Clark being the military vet. Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr. is a conservative Republican from North Carolina who voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq. …