Israeli Perspective on Fox “News”
Fox broadcasts to the entire world. Like CNN, it presents to the globe the face of America and its perception of reality, and it exports its dark side, the infuriating side that inspires so...
Monthly Archive: April 2003
Every time you mention Chalabi’s name to an Iraqi, they want to puke
I noticed this CIA-authored pearl of wisdom concerning Bush’s anointed Iraqi crony in the middle of an especially illuminating roundup of current Iraqi developments… outside of the tedious reports of scripted US troop manoeuvres....
Snipers Declare Open Season On Peace Activists
A British peace activist was shot in the head yesterday as he tried to help a Palestinian woman and her children flee Israeli gunfire … Most of the Palestinians around us had run away,...
No Iraqi Beverly Hillbillies
Apparently the country is broke, and all its oil isn’t enough to do more than lift it up to the state of, well, Argentina or something. Even screwing the French and the Russians our...
Kurdish-Turkmen Firefights in Kirkuk
Amidst a story about the 4-way fight for control in Kirkuk between Turkmen, Kurds, Arabs, and Assyrians (!) I noted this little aside; The second [US] patrol encountered several near-riots and a firefight between...
Racist Moron Invasion
So I checked today and thought Roger had gone completely apeshit posting comments so moronic and stupid they were beyond his usual style. Then I checked my referer logs… this looney fascist fundie nerd...
Iranian Conspiracy Theories
David sent me a wonderful Iranian conspiracy theory that the US allowed Saddam to quit Iraq for Russia so that he can be maintained as a bogeyman image suitable for continual military involvement… much...
Who Threatened The Pampered Sheiks?
The war was a cakewalk after all: the path paved by the bodies of Iraqi civilians and conscripts, who died defenseless against a storm of remote control bombs … The three week invasion offered...
I Loves My Guns I Really Do
Looking after number one, the pro-family Republicans just enacted a bill that would absolve all gun and ammunition manufacturers, retailers, and dealers from legal liability where people have been killed or injured using their...
Kurds Screwed Again – Nobody Very Surprised
So now that the US obviously feels it no longer really needs a Kurdish military distraction in the north of Iraq, I note that Colin Powell has concluded an “agreement” with Turkey. Apparently, there...