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Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
DW: "It happens rarely that 50 years after the death of a writer, new and important manuscripts are discovered. But this is exactly what happened in the case of the greatest dramatist of the 20th century, Bertolt Brecht.
Previously, it was believed that no new materials could be added to the archive of the most performed German dramatist in the world. But new Brecht materials include Brecht's and other author's manuscripts, his notebooks, contracts, documents, passports, check books, bills and letters that he wrote or received."
An die Nachgeborenen.
12:28:14 PM 
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Suzy Wighton: "I accepted my MBE on behalf of all my unsung Palestinian and Lebanese colleagues and comrades. I have now returned it, also in their name. It is an utter disgrace that the British prime minister refused to press for a ceasefire, remained on holiday while these war crimes were being carried out and that parliament has not been recalled. It is a disgrace that the US ambassador to the UN described a call for a three-day truce to assist in humanitarian relief and evacuation of the wounded as 'unhelpful'. It is a disgrace that this government ignored the concerns of the electorate and all other forms of lawful protest. I have therefore come to the conclusion that to continue to hold on to my MBE, for which I was nominated by the parliamentary Labour party, is also a disgrace."
Aljazeera: "Israel's assault on Lebanon was planned before Hezbollah attacked and was aimed at driving a wedge between the different faiths in the country, a delegation from the World Council of Churches says."
CommonDreams: "Israel's army chief, under fire for selling shares hours before launching an offensive in Lebanon, was looking set to become the first head to roll in the outcry over the state's handling of the month-long war.
The army chief sold shares worth 26,000 dollars on July 12 at noon, three hours after the Hezbollah border attack which left eight soldiers dead and two in the hands of the Lebanese militia.
A day later, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange's TA-25 index had lost 8.3 percent."
As long as your hair and shares are looking good, everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
LondonReviewOfBooks: "Military thinking has become our only thinking. The wish for superiority has become the need to have the upper hand in every aspect of relations with our neighbours. The Arabs must be crippled, socially and economically, and smashed militarily, and of course they must then appear to us in the degraded state to which we've reduced them.
Israelis, however, have no right to forget. Too many people here supported the war. It wasn't just the nationalist religious settlers. It's always easy to blame the usual suspects for our misdemeanours: the scapegoating of religious fanatics has allowed us to ignore the role of the army and its advocates within the Zionist left.
This time we must try harder to remember. We must remember the crimes of Olmert, and of our minister of justice, Haim Ramon, who championed the destruction of Lebanese villages after the ambush at Bint Jbeil, and of the army chief of staff, Dan Halutz. Their names should be submitted to The Hague so they can be held accountable."
12:14:43 PM
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Have you had enough? (mp3)
And Clinton got a blowjob (mp3).
You could also play Operation Remove Bush's Cabinet.
Even the mainstream media are now asking Is Bush an idiot?
But the situation is far too serious.
NYTimes: "The number of roadside bombs planted in Iraq rose in July to the highest monthly total of the war, offering more evidence that the anti-American insurgency has continued to strengthen despite the killing of the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
In July, of 2,625 explosive devices, 1,666 exploded and 959 were discovered before they went off."
IHT: "More Iraqi civilians appear to have been killed in July than in any other month of the war, according to national and morgue statistics, suggesting that the much-vaunted Baghdad security plan started in June by the new government had failed."
IHT: "In January 2002, when the Bush administration created the camp at Guantánamo Bay for prisoners from the war in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush said he would be 'adhering to the spirit of the Geneva Convention' in handling the detainees. Unfortunately, like many of the things the administration said about Guantánamo Bay, this was not true. Bush did not intend to follow the Geneva Conventions, and in some vital respects, he still doesn't, despite a Supreme Court ruling that the prisoners merit those protections."
Paranoia reigns in the White House and Downing Street. Everyone seems to be a terrorist in their eyes.
Guardian: "The families of two men originally charged with supporting terrorism after buying large numbers of cell phones say they've lost a sense of belonging to the country they've long called home.
Ali Houssaiky and Osama Sabhi Abulhassan, both of Dearborn, Mich., headed home from jail Tuesday after prosecutors in southeast Ohio dropped the terror charges, saying they couldn't prove a terrorism link."
Independent: "An airliner that took off from Heathrow yesterday made an emergency landing in the United States after a terror alert caused by a panicking woman passenger. Two fighter jets escorted the US-bound plane, carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew, to Logan airport in Boston."
One woman panicked, then the plane crew panicked, then the airport security people. But there is a couple of honourable men bearing their insanity with unrelenting firmness, Calamity George and Phony Tony. They will continue this madness without panicking. It's for you to panic, for them to smirk.
11:54:12 AM
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