Thursday, March 20, 2003

War-blogs
Talking of petitions, it is worth remembering that the online anti-war petition to the UN raised 550,000 signatures, only to be ignored (in the same way the authority of the UN was ignored) by the warmongers.
There are so many other blogs and livejournals that provide sane, propaganda-free war comment that I don't really feel that I can add very much. By mid-morning all western news correspondents in Iraq were subject to Iraqi state censorship - a minder from the government watched them file all their reports. Bear in mind that they are also subject to British government reporting restrictions and you wonder how much truth you will really hear about this war. Blogs from Baghdad like this one which I found yesterday are as close to what is really happening as you may get. They may not have the resources (or dare I say, the authority) of the major news organisations but they are thankfully free from censorship.
I'm more likely to link to these sorts of things and let the story be told that way.
On a more positive note, I was heartened to see so many students and schoolkids protest outside Belfast City Hall today. Let's hope people are listening.......