One of the very few things I respect about China is the fact that it stands up to the US and UK and says what it likes. It’s recent decision, ruling out full democracy for HK is wrong, plain and simple, but China has stood up to the UK and US by telling them to [...]

As a follow-up to my last post Iraq Body Count‘s figures show a reported minimum of 8930 civilians killed as a result of the ‘intervention’ in Iraq. Lunaville.org has a list of Coalition deaths.

While battles rage in Iraq and all the talk is of how many of the “nasty bunch” are getting wiped out it pisses me off how civilians are constantly being forgotten. The article linked to here has a good photo of a small child (looks like 3-4 yrs old) clutching a doll. As a parent [...]