British Invasion of Iraq Was Illegal: Ex-govt Lawyer Wanted: Tony Blair for War Crimes. Is a U.S. Default Inevitable? Rule By The Rich Blair's £200,000 hedge fund pay-day: Tony Blair is to be paid at least £200,000 by a City firm accused of profiteering from the financial crisis that brought Britain's banks to their knees. Banks pull another $1 billion from small business lending: The nation's biggest banks cut their collective small business lending balance by another $1 billion in November, according to a Treasury report released late Friday. The drop marked the seventh straight month of declines. Believe it or not: Calif. Governor Looks South of the Border for Prisons: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that the state could save $1 billion by building and operating prisons in Mexico to house undocumented felons who are currently imprisoned in California.
By Alice Ritchie
"I considered that the use of force against Iraq in March 2003 was contrary to international law," Michael Wood, chief legal advisor to the Foreign Office between 1999 and 2006, told the Chilcot inquiry in London. "In my opinion, that use of force had not been authorised by the Security Council, and had no other legal basis in international law." Continue
Arrest Him and Claim your Reward
By George Monbiot
Chilcot and the courts won't do it, so it is up to us to show that we won't let an illegal act of mass murder go unpunished. Continue
By Patrick J. Buchanan
What the looming fiscal crisis of this country portends is nothing less than a test of whether this democratic republic is sustainable. Continue
By Paul Craig Roberts
Obama has reneged on every promise he made, from ending wars, to closing Gitmo, to providing health care for Americans, to curtailing the domestic police state, to putting the interests of dispossessed Americans ahead of the interests of the rich banksters who robbed Americans of their homes and pensions. Continue
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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