a time for fear

Sick of this rancid orange background all atff posts are migrating elsewhere: The Kid Stays in the Picture There. Go there.

Clearing Matters Up Before I Go Away The bottom line is this: all I really want to do is scan and relay chaos and calamity and point and...

Naughty Naughty It turns out that we're like this small but well-stocked hardware stall and our leaders are like so many discreet an...

Narco-war There are 6 separate wars being fought in Colombia at the moment. This is, I think you'd agree, far too many for such a sm...

Passion of Christ opens in the US. In Texas, thousands of Christians rose before dawn to view the movie, with 6,000 filmgoers filling a...

The Tiny Revolt You may not of heard about a spasm of Islamist-instigated violence in Nigeria last December, but it happened. About ...

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Thomas Paine

Go here and here for news links about the imminent capture of Osama bin Laden (plus a lot of other stuff about events in Afghanistan).

Eternal return Haiti

Springtime for Khost and the Taliban As spring approaches, the Afghan resistance, singularly unaffected by joint US and Pakistan offensi...

New Lord's Resistance Army atrocities in Northern Uganda.

case 412a: judgement of comrade Craner, O Oh shit. Now I'm in trouble. Dear Mr Craner It is my sad duty t...

This is what I'm talking about.

Here's a gem culled straight from a book that came out last year called Modern Jihad - Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks by...

And yes, I do think that a "septic State mafia" in power is worse than a potentially functioning US-backed Shi'ite-instigated ...

An immoral war was thus waged and the world is a great deal less safe place than before This sentence from Archbishop Desmond Tutu made ...

Received from Joyo Indonesia News Associated Press February 13, 2004 Indonesian Warship Sinks Hijacked Boat In Malacca Straits An...

The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people. Chop !

Then you witness yourself or watch people pretend to know everything in a debate: it's a funny front, but also necessary, a mass halluc...

The Jakarta Post Friday, February 13, 2004 RI, U.S. May Improve Military Ties JAKARTA: The Indonesian and United States militaries h...

Tim Sebastian, BBC World HARDtalk : You are trying to give the Indonesians a better image? It would be hard to give Indonesia a better imag...

Pepe Escobar picks holes in the al-Qaeda memo "discovered" by the US: This latest US intelligence, though, makes little sense...

Iraq, Year Zero This astonishing passage comes from Said K. Aburish's virulent book The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of The Hous...