Category Archives: Globospheric
links for 2007-01-08: farewell Saddam
Thanks for the Memories A brief history of Saddam Hussein (tags: History politics Saddam iraq)
Top Choons in the Zone
I’m long averse to the Guardian’s arts pages, especially the music reviews, but I happened to find myself at the bottom of a workmanlike but deeply uninteresting music column just now, and there was this: A survey of Last FM … more…
Mark Twain – To the Person Sitting in Darkness
How does this rock? Shall we? That is, shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest? Shall we bang right ahead in our old-time, loud, … more…
Return of the MacGuffin: Iran and Nuclear Weapons
A similar curiosity to the one about “short shrift” similarly affected me on the subject of The McGuffin. The results brought me into more topical waters: Subject-Barred: Return of the MacGuffin: Iran and Nuclear Weapons A MacGuffin (sometimes spelt McGuffin … more…
Bangkok Pundit, Gnarly Kitty blogging the Thailand coup
Bangkok Pundit and Gnarly Kitty blogging the Thailand coup d’etat as it happens: UPDATE: 3:21pm ITV’s feed keeps getting cut and we go to Channel 5, which is owned by the Army. We just had a stern message from Channel … more…
Halliburton supplied Iran with nuclear technology components
Each year, Project Censored publishes a list of news stories which have been mysteriously neglected by the world’s mainstream media. The latest list is topped by the issue of net neutrality, which was bubbling away throughout 2005, but recieved little … more…
Look at September, look at October…
Yesterday was one of those early autumn afternoons. You know the ones. The phrase drifted into my head; the image drifted into my browser, thanks to Enoweb. This is one of the four lithographs by the late Peter Schmidt, included … more…
EU rejects Poland’s death penalty call
The European Union has dismissed a plan by Poland’s president for the return of the death penalty across Europe. “The death penalty is not compatible with European values,” Steffan de Rynck, the European Commission spokesman, said. Lech Kaczynski – whose … more…
little man, you’ve had a busy day
I was up and about at 5.30 this morning, feeling fine, and happily sat down to work. I’ve spent most of the last, what, sixteen and a half hours on this blog, and I require a pat on the head, … more…
Blair on Lebanon
I’ve been studiously avoiding comment on the horrors being visited on Lebanon, but then I read this: Tony Blair spelt out the British position on Wednesday. “This would stop now if the soldiers who were kidnapped wrongly… were released,” he … more…