Daily Archive: April 4, 2003

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Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury

So the chickenhawks like to diss the Iraqis for staging their military “near” civilians and interspersed between civilian infrastructures. Yet I read a fascinating report in the CSM about US troops illegally requisitioning schools...

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The Weaker Sex?

The Iraqi government news agency, in a report carried on Arab satellite TV, said that two Iraqi women carried out a suicide attack on U.S. forces northwest of Baghdad. It appeared to refer to...

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Googlewashing

The Register has a nice article about how easily high-status blogging marketers and tools vendors can game Google (“Googlewashing”) to produce desired results. Pew Research Center’s latest research says the number of Internet users...

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An Extremely Responsible Tyrant

Arundhati Roy wrote a powerful article. An American soldier. “I wanna get in there and get my nose dirty,” Private AJ said. “I wanna take revenge for 9/11.” … so far there was no...

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Deny Everything

So the spinmeisters are in full effect trying to deny that any US/UK bombs could, might, even possibly be responsible for the civilian slaughters in Baghdad. Their main strategy is to besmirch the reputation...

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The Sound of Silence

I’ve IP banned Roger Carasso, which is a sad but necessary action. His “contributions” are more acrimonious and irreconcilable than I feel comfortable with hosting on my own site, and I really don’t think...