On Khaosan Road In the early morning you could forgive Khoasan Road for being just another dirty, grimy, haze filled street stuffed with an oppressive blanket of heat that you could easily slice with a blunt knife.But it doesn't take long for the roa

The Propaganda machine.In the previous article I examined how the US media had in its own way contributed to the US losing the war in Iraq.One of the media's consipcuous failures was not to challenge the blatant propaganda that they were fed by the C

Dear all,Something quite dramatic happened after 9/11.Not just the understandable anger that followed the terrorist atrocity, and the human desire for revenge. What also died on that tragic day was the reputation of the US media.Blinded by grief perh

Dien Bien PhuDear all,This week, hundreds of Vietnam veterans will make their way to the small town of Dien Bien Phu to remember their fallen comrades.Dien Bien Phu was the site of a seminal battle, a battle that was to signal the end of the French e

First Impressions of ThailandDear all,I arrived in Bangkok just under a week ago.The oppressive, stifling heat reminds me somewhat of Dar es Salaam, or Lima - New Orleans even.One vast, di

The US and obesity - why we need a fat taxDear all,The main cause of death in the US emerged ye

It is 1978.The cargo ship Munchen set sail to cross the Atlantic. Munchen was a state-of-the-art cargo ship. The December storms predicted when she set out to cross the Atlantic did not concern her German crew. The voyage was perfectly routine until

Dear all,In a recent posting, Why are women's breasts illegal? I commented on the arrest of a woman in Florida for bearing her breasts in public. To me it seemed ridiculous that while men were allowed to wander around with their torso exposed, women

A serial burgular was recently convicted of his crimes in a court in New Zealand and was sentenced by the judge to serve 20 months in a state prison.The burgular instantly lodged an appeal against the sentence. To the judges surprise, the defendant w

The Week in Review - from the Welsh LeekThis report filed by our man on the spot, Roy Rubberplunger.This week a global summit of P

The Week in Review - from the Welsh LeekEarlier this week, the American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, repeated his assertion that prisoners being held at Guatanamo bay were, 'Hardcore,

And for the rest of the coalition soldiers.Dear all,Those that have read me in the past will know that I thoroughly disapprove of the poorly planned, immoral and criminally incompetent schoo

What's going on?Dear all,Here's a nice little conspiracy for you, concerning the allegations of corruption in the oil for food program.Now it's a little complicated so bear with me."The

Weird talesDear all,This week in Camodia, a judge heard the case of a woman accused of murdering her two nieces.When arrested she was found in possession of the gold earrings of one of her n

Dear allPresident Musharraf of Pakistan has today called on religeous clerics to review of both the Blasphemy law and the strict Hudood law.The Hudood law covers crimes of adultery and rape.Under this law, a rape victim has to produce four witnesses

Defining a new exit strategy for IraqDear all,As many commentators supsected before a bullet was fired the US never had an exit strategy for leaving Iraq.This wa

How did it come to this?Dear all,In the first part of this series I examined how the deliberate disregard for the law in the US was directly responsible for the abuse, humiliation, torture a

How did it come to this?Dear all,The horrific photographs released over the last few days that have stunned the entire world mark a new depth to which the reputation of the US has sunk.With

Dear all,We're all stuck in a hierarchy where the strongest rules, right? Might is right, ignorance is strength and if you disagree I'll punch your lights out.For millennia people have lives in a subservient way bowing down to some superior or other.

An interesting yet strange pollDear all,According to a New York times/CBS poll, Americans are becoming increasingly critical about the way that Bush is handling the war in Iraq.Now let me po

Dear all,With news out today that the WMD team in Iraq has been instructed to change its focus on finding WMDs to establishing Saddams intent to produce them, some stories are emerging on the hard streets of occupied Iraq:'The Bush administration yes

Dear all,April fools day used to be known as All Fool's day, but where did it come from and why is it celebrated? There are many theories, the preponderant one claiming that the day has its origins in the late sixteenth century, when the Gregorian ca

Bush and his cronies are still lying.The latest reason for invading Iraq being pushed by the Whitehouse is that it causedLibya to forsake it's nuclear programme.But did it?The Whiteh

A critical look at conditions in Iraq todayWith the protests around the world marking the anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, Bush is claiming that things are getting better in Iraq.Most

Dwindling Resources.Dear all,The world is made up of 70% of water.Curiously enough, so is the human body.But only 3% of the worlds water is fresh, and much of that is caught up in the poles, the glaciers and the ice-sheets in places such as Greenland