An illuminating piece from Robert Fisk summing up why Bin Laden was no longer a major influential figure on the world stage and could be dispensed with at last. This paragraph struck me as especially pertinent, raising important questions. But a court would have worried more people than Bin Laden. After all, he might have […]
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So, Obama finishes his hilarious speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by throwing down the head of Osama Bin Laden, saying, ‘Beat that, Donald’. The Mother of All Prizes, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed by Amurkin troops on this royal wedding weekend, ten years after 9/11. Following a massive intelligence effort, he was
I just received the above from my friend, John Mendelsohn (Christopher Milk, Sparks, critic on Rolling Stone). John wrote and performed My Country Tortured, a haunting song about the realisation of what America did under the Bush administration. Another excellent track is The Afghanistan Song by Superbia, a two-man outfit I met at the St
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