Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has been accused of rape in Sweden, according to a BBC news report. Thus begins the discrediting of yet another truth-teller.

Kenya’s pivotal vote occurs in 2 days

News media loves Geithner. Why do they love him? Because his sentences are utterly meaningless. A good fit for the crappy news media.

BBC reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed the existence of a second prison site at Bagram. The presence of a second site has long been suspected, a prison the Afghans call Tor Prison, or the “Black” Prison.

A recent BBC poll confirms what has generally been considered one of Obama indisputable successes so far – improving the American image abroad.

Quick recommendations on 1) a Military Times multipart series on the overuse of psychatric meds in the military and 2) a BBC interview with the mayor of Jerusalem featuring questions never, ever asked by American journalists.

I am pleased to link here the 1992 three-part BBC documentary by Alan Francovich, Gladio. Utilizing interviews from the many European and American principals involved, the documentary relates the story of the biggest “conspiracy” of our time (are you listening, Cass Sunstein?) — the existence of a covert terrorist network maintained throughout Europe by NATO, which utilized terrorism in an effort to discredit the political left.

A recent poll conducted by the BBC sheds some light as to which countries hold the most neoliberal views and which the least.

The government of Egypt is taking a hard line against international solidarity efforts in support of civilians in Gaza, , blocking peace marchers from the U.S., Canada, and Europe from even approaching the Egyptian border with Gaza and blocking an aid convoy that has the support of the Turkish government from entering Egypt at Nuweiba. Meanwhile there is largely a U.S. press blackout of these striking developments.

British comedy at its best.