Sunday, July 25, 2004
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
NWA 327: Dry run for terrorists or misunderstanding?
Once more the climate of fear is stoked by those living under its spell.
Thursday, July 22, 2004
The invisble hand of empire
Mainichi Interactive - Top News: "U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told a visiting Japanese politician that war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution was blocking the progress of the Japan-U.S. alliance.
Senior lawmaker Hidenao Nakagawa of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party revealed on Wednesday to Japanese reporters comments Armitage made at the Department of State.
When Nakagawa said that it was time for Japan to discuss the possibility of revising the pacifist Constitution, Armitage responded by saying that it was an issue for the Japanese people to handle.
The deputy secretary of state added in his personal opinion that Article 9, which bans the use of force in settling international disputes, was becoming an obstacle to the progress of the Tokyo-Washington alliance."
It is not enough that American economic policy is pushed upon the world through organs such as the IMF or the World Bank. Now it is defence policy and more worryingly, constitutional changes.
I am in favour of pacificistic permanent member of the UN Security Council. A veto wielding country that is constituionally constrained from deploying force outside of its borders on the UNSC. That would add a hint of deliberation to future proceedings.
Interestingly, the pacifist constitution was forced upon Japanese people by the United States occupying force after WW2. What does this tell us about the future of Iraq?
Senior lawmaker Hidenao Nakagawa of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party revealed on Wednesday to Japanese reporters comments Armitage made at the Department of State.
When Nakagawa said that it was time for Japan to discuss the possibility of revising the pacifist Constitution, Armitage responded by saying that it was an issue for the Japanese people to handle.
The deputy secretary of state added in his personal opinion that Article 9, which bans the use of force in settling international disputes, was becoming an obstacle to the progress of the Tokyo-Washington alliance."
It is not enough that American economic policy is pushed upon the world through organs such as the IMF or the World Bank. Now it is defence policy and more worryingly, constitutional changes.
I am in favour of pacificistic permanent member of the UN Security Council. A veto wielding country that is constituionally constrained from deploying force outside of its borders on the UNSC. That would add a hint of deliberation to future proceedings.
Interestingly, the pacifist constitution was forced upon Japanese people by the United States occupying force after WW2. What does this tell us about the future of Iraq?
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Priceless if it were not shameful
News: "But all three contenders for the post were considered unworthy of support by UKIP, including Bronislaw Geremek, a renowned scholar and a founder of the Solidarnosc who emerged from prison under the Communists to become Foreign Minister of a liberated Poland.
Mr Geremek's vision of Europe, honed at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Sorbonne was rejected by Mr Kilroy- Silk who offered an alternative view of the Continent: somewhere to go on holiday and buy clothing."
Pandering to popularism has never been so entertaining. The UK Independence Party are the epitome of Conservative: Destroy progress in order to hold on to a warm illusion of national identity based on an imperial past.
UKIP may be humorous to anyone with even a rudimentary curiosity, but they reinforce the dumbing down of the populace in order to further their own aims. This may be funny, but it is as much milking people of their votes as the the Republic/Democrat system in the US.
Time for some Deliberative Democracy. Someone. Please?
Mr Geremek's vision of Europe, honed at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Sorbonne was rejected by Mr Kilroy- Silk who offered an alternative view of the Continent: somewhere to go on holiday and buy clothing."
Pandering to popularism has never been so entertaining. The UK Independence Party are the epitome of Conservative: Destroy progress in order to hold on to a warm illusion of national identity based on an imperial past.
UKIP may be humorous to anyone with even a rudimentary curiosity, but they reinforce the dumbing down of the populace in order to further their own aims. This may be funny, but it is as much milking people of their votes as the the Republic/Democrat system in the US.
Time for some Deliberative Democracy. Someone. Please?
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