Colin Powell is so sad he can't erase 'blot' on his reputation

Daily Kos: Colin Powell is so sad he can't erase 'blot' on his reputation:

Fancy Some False Pledges?

If you are in a mood for some self-deluding and palpably mendacious promises here is Obama's weekly address:

August, 1914

What in our lives is burnt
In the fire of this?
The heart’s dear granary?
The much we shall miss?

Three lives hath one life –
Iron, honey, gold.
The gold, the honey gone –
Left is the hard and cold.

Iron are our lives
Molten right through our youth.
A burnt space through ripe fields
A fair mouth’s broken tooth.

Isaac Rosenberg

Cameron Texted Rebekah Brooks "A Dozen" Times a Day

New Statesman - Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks "a dozen" times a day:

US-Russia Missile Negotiations Stall

Clip - US Political Satire

KBR Want To Run UK Police

The Texas-based Kellogg Brown & Root, which was sold off by the controversial Halliburton corporation in 2007, is part of a consortium which has made it to the final shortlist for a contract that will see large-scale involvement of the private sector in British policing for the first time.

When KBR was still part of Halliburton it won a large share of Pentagon contracts to build and manage US military bases in Iraq after the 2003 invasion. Its former chief executive, Dick Cheney, was US vice-president. MORE

Bayrou Votera Hollande

François Bayrou votera pour François Hollande by LCP

Sarkozy Now Desperate. Will Say Anything

There was more stunning news to come. On French television, Sarkozy categorically denied having said the words "real work". He denied the facts for 24 long hours. Then, on national radio, contrite and charming, he finally admitted to having said those words because "for a rally, they sounded really good". Asked to comment on Sarkozy's "temporary amnesia", as polite French journalists called the episode, his socialist rival François Hollande replied: "All I know is that he's the president of 'real unemployment'!" The pique proved too tempting. MORE

Twin Evils: Vietnam and Iraq

Twin Evils: Vietnam and Iraq « LewRockwell.com Blog:

Adieu, Sarkozy

Günter Grass and the Anti-Semitism Canard

Günter Grass and the Anti-Semitism Canard:

Murdoch:Hacking Scandal Highlights

The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti

A working-class ballad from Woody Guthrie to mark May Day:

May Day In Havana

Not A Bad Turnout

Iraq Civilian Deaths Climb In April

REFILE-Iraq civilian deaths climb in April -govt figures - AlertNet:

Workers around the world mark May Day

Workers around the world mark May Day - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English:

Murdoch 'Not Fit To Run A Corporation'

Murdoch 'Not Fit To Run A Corporation':

Mitt Romney, American Parasite

Mitt Romney, American Parasite - Page 1 - News - Seattle - Seattle Weekly:

Diego Garcia - The Story

The sad, grotesque story of how the island and its inhabitants were treated HERE. So much for 'liberating' the Falkland Islanders at a later stage.

Obama At The White House Correspondents Dinner

Cracking the jokes and gags while people die in foreign fields. Meanwhile the US elite guffaw into their clam chowder. Have a paper bag handy to watch this.

Hollande And Sarkozy Face Scandals

Jeremy Hunt Update

The MOD And Surface To Air Cockneys

The whole sorry saga is HERE