No Child Left Behind
A man and his 12-year-old daughter spent the last four years living in a remote hillside in Portland’s Forest Park … Under a tarp-covered, wood-framed shelter, [police] found sleeping bags, a partially burnt log,...
Monthly Archive: May 2004
Oh the Irony of Unfortunate Timing
The Bush administration wants the U.N. Security Council to renew on Friday a controversial resolution exempting American peacekeepers from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court … The draft resolution, introduced by the United...
Feith’s Gestapo Office
Feith … who was described by … Gen Tommie Franks, as “the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth”, has been at the center of virtually everything else that has gone wrong...
Best of Friends
Arms dealer Viktor Bout was the merchant of death wanted for feeding conflicts in Africa – until Iraq happened. Today the United States and Britain are using his extensive mercenary services in Iraq. The...
Chalabi: The Ian Paisley of the Iraqi Shia
[Chalabi’s] prescient seizure of Saddam’s intelligence files a year ago has equipped him with a useful tool to intimidate opponents. In politics, despite his apparent lack of general appeal, he has been carving out...
Far From Civilisation
I just noticed the chociest quote in all the wedding party massacre coverage: Major General James Mattis, commander of the 1st Marine Division, was scathing of those who suggested a wedding party had been...
Mazel Tov From Your Pentagon Wellwishers
“We were in Mukaradeeb. At 3am they rained the air with bombs … One after another the bombs were falling. Three houses with the guests inside were hit. They fired as if there were...
Coup A Go Go
Why did the Bush administration turn against its former favorite Iraqi [Ahmed Chalabi]? Almost certainly because it realized that Chalabi, maddened by the realization that he was being excluded from the post-June 30 hand-over...
Four More Years!
Because of his complicity with the Bush Gang’s irresponsible wartime stimulus to the US economy — largely consisting of enticing people to speculate on their homes by creating an artificially low interest rate coupled...
Bush’s War Crime Memos – Planning Ahead!
Newsweek has uncovered some amazing memos that demonstrate how even several years ago Colin Powell was warning that abandoning the Geneva Conventions was probably a mistake, and could lead to war crimes prosecutions against...