You Said It!

Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it wrought brings out a a few truths about America under George W Bush.

Iraqis are not deluded about the invasion of their country and the freedom struggle, while straight talking about the invasion picks up in the US.

Comments on democracy in the West, the reality of war, and social justice.

Home truths about torture, Iran, and that garrulous oaf, Donald Rumsfeld.

Noting the totalitarian streak in the UK government, the moral depravity of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and US unilateralism.

How the religious-symbol ban in France reaffirms social hierarchies. Etcetera.

A nativity exhibit at Madame Tussaud's prompts reflection, Ralph Nader on the dullness of American progressives.

Sobering reflections on the implications of the Republican sweep of US elections for president, house, and senate.

Ralph Nader shows up some defects of democracy in America. Britain reconsiders human rights.

Home truths about realities the American and British establishments refuse to face.

Pakistan arrests more alleged terrorists and the Labour Party starts to wonder about Blair.

On Guantanamo, animal rights, obesity, the planned trial of Saddam Hussein, and the changing of the guard in Iraq.

Israel's moral bankruptcy; aid and debt relief; human rights versus the state.

The point of economic reforms; thinking about court martials; law in Iraq; how the US is promoting a climate of war and killing that nobody wants.