all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Here’s a great article demonstrating the extraordinary farce and tragedy displayed in the ongoing destruction of Baghdad. I can’t help but think there’s some element of perverse vindictiveness in this directed against the Iraqis...
This is one of the most detailed counterspin articles I’ve read in a while. During the pre-war media hype, much coverage was afforded to a “young” “antiwar demonstrator”, one “Reverand Kenneth Joseph”, who apparently...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...