No Smoke Without Fire?
Does this add a new dimension to the term “laying down a smokescreen“? The British military uses white phosphorous in Iraq but only to lay smoke screens, the government said Wednesday, after...
View ArticleScrambled, Or Sunny-Side Up?
How would you like your eggs done here sir, scrambled or sunny- side up? Of course my hilarity here may be due to the fact that Huevos in Spanish has a rather different connotation: A South Korean...
View ArticleBirth Dearth?
This link is not exactly recent, but it is a reasonably good summary of something.
View ArticlePlanting The News?
Wow! The FT today has a very long and extensive story about how the US military have been ‘placing’ stories in the Iraqi press. While I don’t disagree with the observation by one commentator in that “I...
View ArticleIraq Oil Output Declines
There’s an interesting piece in the FT today about how oil output is steadily decining in Iraq due to over explotation of existing wells and the difficulties in attracting the technical staff necessary...
View ArticleContinue To Denationalise Tamiflu!
Following up on my spoof post about the complexity of making bets when it comes to new pharma products, worries about Tamiflu continue. The original issue was one of unexplained deaths in Japan, which...
View ArticleLatin America’s First Woman President
A continent renowned for its supposed machismo seems about to get its first female president, Michelle Bachelet. This in itself is interesting, but equally interesting is the divide that can be seen...
View ArticleNot A Happy Week In Iraq
This seems to be the big-picture story in Iraq: Sunni Arab politicians, meanwhile, expressed anger over remarks by Iraq’s most powerful Shiite politician suggesting that the new constitution, approved...
View ArticleThe idealism of neocons
Sadly, No!: What’s The Phrase I’m Looking For? The real concern to neocons is that the democracy in question is pro- or anti-American (or -Israel). And whatever new excuse they come up with to finesse...
View ArticleBahrain blogger Mahmood censored
This falls under the category “Not Europe” here at AFEM but on the internet the world is a global village and one of the voices in that village has just been silenced, albeit in his own neighbourhood,...
View Article
