Mogwai - Cody
Well, lots of stories are unfolding. Dick Cheney is being further implicated in a massive post-9/11 CIA operation that became illegal when Cheney himself restricted CIA officials from briefing Congress about it. While nobody seems to be surprised at all by this, prepare to be even less surprised when he gets away without even a slap on the wrist; if he hasn't been caught for any of his shadiness yet, there's no reason why he should eat it this time. And good grief, considering some of the stuff Congress has approved, one can only imagine what this particular plan involved.
The UK is revoking some export licenses to Israel's navy because of the war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. Yes, Hamas and Israel both committed war crimes, but the UK didn't sell weapons to Hamas (not directly, anyway), so that's their reasoning for cutting the arms sales.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman had this to say:
"We've had many embargoes in the past...We can manage. This shouldn't bother us."
Well, you have to hand it to Lieberman, at least he doesn't act totally unaware of the atrocities like US leaders would. We would have gotten all huffy and offended if someone stopped selling us weapons because we committed war crimes, but it's totally water off a duck's back for this guy.
I haven't seen any huge, breaking updates on the Iran business either. Mousavi is apparently still trying to form a new political party (I'm personally not clear on how that would help unite the reformists, unless they're all willing to unite under him in one party?), but they're saying he'll be banned. Otherwise, I guess things are basically getting more and more authoritarian over there.
Man, my eyes hurt.
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