all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Clear Channel, the Borg-like media & propaganda conglomerate that controls most of the radio and billboard advertising in the US (and also ensures that radio playlists are such terrible, homogenized soma-like pap), is sponsoring...
we start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq. On the first...
British forces left behind to staff the checkpoints, control the roads and occupy the cities here in southern Iraq say the military campaign for them has taken on the feel of a Belfast-style guerrilla...
I liked Dvorak’s take on how lame and tame is the coverage by the “embedded” journos… Anchor: Jim, what’s going on there? Jim: We’re moving north. It’s windy and sand is blowing. Anchor: So...
An interesting article here examining how VP Dick Cheney’s company, Halliburton, is skimming off hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for “logistical support” during the Iraq campaign. It’s an open-ended contract, which means...
So the Turks are refusing to bow to US pressure to withdraw from northern Iraq. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is rushing US special forces into the Kurdish-held areas of northern Iraq to act as a...
So it was little noticed at the time, but Rand Beers, the Bush Gang’s top official at the NSC in charge of the War On Terror quit abruptly, timing his exit to coincide with...