The immoral and irresponsible use of unmanned aerial assault vehicles
BOTH supporters and opponents of nuclear power ought to unite in hostility to the government plan to offer British Nuclear Group to the US transnational corporations Bechtel and Lockheed Martin.
THINGS have reached a pretty pass when even Tory MPs John Selwyn Gummer and Douglas Hogg talk more sense about the US concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay than a Labour minister.
US President George W Bush welcomed the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the Palestinian people's new president, asserting US readiness "to help the Palestinian people realise their aspirations."
THE latest mistargeting of a US precision-guided 500lb bomb to the wrong address in Mosul and its consequent slaughter of 14 civilians, including nine children, should serve to remind people of the reality behind Washington's supposed democratisation mission in Iraq.
ARE there no depths to which Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will not sink to ingratiate himself with Northern Ireland's intransigent unionist politicians and the British security forces?
"I THINK the Palestinians have had enough sympathy," Tony Blair told his monthly press conference.
NEITHER the British Foreign Office nor the media officer for the Iraqi puppet provisional government knows anything about the current suspension of phone communications in Iraq or so they say.
MICHAEL Howard, the spirit of poll tax past, must believe the old maxim that a week in politics is a long time and that nearly eight years since the Tories were in office constitutes very nearly a lifetime.
THE scale of the loss of life and material damage caused by the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami continues to inspire a generous response across the globe.