By Kelly Fiveash, 8th June 2009, www.theregister.co.uk
The pro-internet file sharing Pirate Party yesterday scored a big win by securing a seat in the European parliament.
It pulled in 7.1 per cent of votes in Sweden, which handed the party one of the country’s 18 seats in the European parliament.
A pro-western regime in Kabul should give the US an Afghan route for Caspian oil.
George Monbiot
The Guardian, Tuesday 23 October 2001 23.54 BST
“Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here,” Woodrow Wilson asked a year after the first world war ended, “that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?” In 1919, as US citizens watched a shredded Europe scraping up its own remains, the answer may well have been no. But the lessons of war never last for long. The invasion of Afghanistan is certainly a campaign against terrorism, but it may also be a late colonial adventure. British ministers have warned MPs that opposing the war is the moral equivalent of appeasing Hitler, but in some respects our moral choices are closer to those of 1956 than those of 1938. Afghanistan is as indispensable to the regional control and transport of oil in central Asia as Egypt was in the Middle East.