Author: mike

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...

Poor Dubya is really suffering. According to “those who know him”… He’s being hard on himself; he gave up sweets just before the war began.

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...

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...

So the nervous US/UK troops manning their checkpoints throughout Iraq are relying on dodgy speak-and-spell devices that freak out the locals and… telepathy? Where are the human translators who could make sense of this...

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...

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...

One report from Iraq, of a road littered with army boots, is reminiscent of similar scenes in Saigon, as men sat down, company by company, and exchanged the boots which would identify them as...

So it seems that impatiant with criticism over the slow pace of the war, the Pentagon has indeed changed into scorch mode, switching from “precision” ordinance to those most imprecise of modern ordinance, cluster...

The Americans also dropped about 285 million cluster bombs on Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, according to the Pentagon. In August 2000, a quarter of a century after the Vietnam war ended, one of them...