war

Wednesday 10 October


Friday 10 August

  • Black Bush (16:58) - Somehow I had never seen this clip. 3rd season maybe? Either way, Dave Chappelle at his best. [via boreme.com] ... | 0 Comments

Friday 3 August

  • US Rep suggests bombing Mecca to stop terror (14:23) - WASHINGTON (CNN) — Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo’s campaign stood by his assertion that bombing holy Muslim sites would serve as a good “deterrent” to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from attacking the United States, his spokeswoman said Friday. “If it is up... | 3 Comments

Tuesday 1 May

  • Mission Accomplished (13:29) - 4 years after President Bush announced major combat operations were complete in Iraq, Think Progress takes a look at the American cost of the war by numbers. One important number left out of these statistics. Iraq Civilian Deaths: between 62,700... | 1 Comments

Thursday 8 February

  • Barney, a real American Hero (11:02) - Heavy metal music and popular American children's songs are being used by US interrogators to break the will of their captives in Iraq. Uncooperative prisoners are being exposed for prolonged periods to tracks by rock group Metallica and music from... | 0 Comments

Saturday 23 September

  • Is bin Laden Dead? (13:31) - Fugitive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, believed to be on the run in rugged terrain in the Afghan-Pakistani border region since the September 11 attacks five years ago, has become seriously ill and may have already died, a... | 2 Comments

Thursday 11 August

  • Banksy Owns West Bank Barrier (13:29) - Secretive "guerrilla" artist Banksy has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side. The nine paintings were created on the Palestinian side of the barrier. One depicts a hole in the wall with... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 3 May

  • Army Recruiters Bending the Rules (22:51) - It was late September when the 21-year-old man, fresh from a three-week commitment in a psychiatric ward, showed up at an Army recruiting station in southern Ohio. The two recruiters there wasted no time signing him up, and even after... | 6 Comments

Sunday 30 January

  • Defiant Iraqis Vote in Their Millions Despite Bombs (15:46) - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Some came on crutches, others walked for miles then struggled to read the ballot, but across most of Iraq millions turned out to vote Sunday, defying insurgent threats of a bloodbath.Suicide bombs and mortars killed at...

Sunday 23 January

  • robotic soldiers (21:49) - The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq. Eighteen of the 1m-high robots, equipped with cameras and operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this spring, the Associated Press...

Thursday 20 January

  • Media coverage distorts reality in Iraq (21:39) - A letter from LTC Tim Ryan to World Tribune. It's lengthy, but worth your time. Give it a read will ya....
  • Fox gets pwn3d by surprisingly critical guest (21:22) - Brigitte Quinn, MSNBC anchor turned Fox News Live anchor, is taken off-guard by a guest who was apparently supposed to hype the inaugural today but instead used the air time to criticize Bush's lavish spending on his 10 parties....

Monday 17 January

  • Pentagon spurned plan for enemy aphrodisiac (11:14) - Sometimes the Weekly World News gets it right... well almost right. This story has been making the rounds for a few weeks now, but this is the firt time I've seen it up at the major news sources. WASHINGTON...

Sunday 16 January

  • Philadelphia's Biker War (13:57) - The Hell's Angels are making a strong move for the Pagan's turf here in Philadelphia, prompting an all out biker war. Problems in Philadelphia began about two years ago when the Hell's Angels announced they were interested in taking over...

Tuesday 11 January

  • Hero (18:10) - Sgt. Rafael Peralta "You're still here, don't forget that. Tell your kids, your grandkids, what Sgt. Peralta did for you and the other Marines today."...

Tuesday 21 September

  • Press Reports on U.S. Casualties: About 17,000 Short (20:04) - Nearly 17,000 service members medically evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan are absent from public Pentagon casualty reports commonly cited by newspapers, according to military data reviewed by United Press International. Most don't fit the definition of casualties, according to the...

Monday 20 September

  • US to use microwave guns in Iraq (11:08) - This has bad news written all over it. The microwave guns basically microwave your skin, creating unbearable pain that immediately goes away when you step away from the microwave beam. The US says there are no after-effects, but what about...