Politicians in the West have been queuing up to express sound-bites of righteous indignation about chemical weapons having possibly been used in Syria this week by Assad's regime. Drones, those Nazi V2-style weapons of murder seem immune from criticism as far as they are concerned and they are now operated from an airbase five miles from here. People who are sat with playstation style controllers are judge, jury and executioner in Afghanistan, and presumably after killing are free to nip into town to do a bit of shopping if they are not feeling too tired after. The moral hypocrisy never ends. Perhaps it will put David Cameron in the running for a Nobel peace prize of his own, like Obama's.
Veteran peace campaigner Helen John, a Greenham Common protestor against the siting of US nuclear weapons in the UK in the 1980's (a movement that was one factor that perhaps helped encourage the Thatcher government to negotiate an end to the Cold War with Gorbachev), has returned to life in a tent 'for the forseeable future' - link here.
Veteran peace campaigner Helen John, a Greenham Common protestor against the siting of US nuclear weapons in the UK in the 1980's (a movement that was one factor that perhaps helped encourage the Thatcher government to negotiate an end to the Cold War with Gorbachev), has returned to life in a tent 'for the forseeable future' - link here.