Gulf War

I rarely need more reasons to dislike Saudi Arabia than I already have. After all it is  the world’s most inhumane state. But RT has just reported that top Saudi cleric Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh has just castigated vocal musical performance and cinema saying that “We know that singing concerts and cinemas are a depravity”.

It’s time to put a critical lens to the propaganda in the news and social media.

ROAR Mag
I want to give testimony on what are called the “highways of death.”
These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions.

I joined Tom Secker once again to discuss the 1997 film Wag the Dog. The film revolves around a White House spin doctor who orchestrates a fake war in Albania to shift attention away from a sex scandal which would cost the president reelection.

An Open Letter by Former UN Officials

THE CASE FOR PEACE
The drums of war are beating once more in the Middle East, this time with the possibility of an imminent attack on Syria, after the alleged use of chemical weapons by its government. It is precisely in times of crisis such as now that the case for peace can be made in the clearest and most obvious manner.

By DSWright | FDL | July 23, 2013