From RR

• What’s the point of demonstrating? People are there for all sorts of reasons. The mainstream media are in league with the government when they report on demonstrations. The powers that be don’t give a damn about your demonstrations or the reasons that have impelled you to participate in them, except to the extent that your actions create bad press for them and their policies. I sympathize with the people who’ve gone to the trouble of protesting against the government’s abuses, but I find myself wondering, Do these poor souls really think they’ll accomplish something by this protest? When I saw the Internet coverage I though ‘revolution’ but won’t get my hopes up that high.
• They all lie!
• US House rebukes Joe Wilson.
• Obama favours renewing parts of Patriot Act.
• Iraq veterans’ PTSD up 35 per cent.
• UN: Gaza acts amounted to war crimes.
• Interventionism, empire and the Taleban.
• At least Obama’s talking to Iran.
• Mutadhar al-Zaidi: ‘the story of my shoe’.