Monitor is running a report on American coercion of undecided candidates in the UN Security Council. African states are being presented with a clear choice: either be left completely isolated economically or cooperate. Chile is being blackmailed with the failure of economic negotiations. Overall, a diplomacy of extortion and bribery. Crowned by the spying on UN diplomats. With the goal of killing people.

Also interesting (in a very horrific way) are the photos of war victims (by Stanley Green and others). Everyone should remember that precision weapons are nothing more than weapons that kill people - and that the precision is just a lie. Unfortunately, hardly anyone really wants to see that - people prefer to convince themselves that war is as clean as American military propaganda (among others) depicts it. Collateral damage could just as easily be us - or any other civilian who happens to be in the wrong place. Even if that wrong place is their home, and all they do is live there.