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Syria Next On The Chopping Block?

Although I flagged this ages ago (and in fact, it’s been part of the neocon Middle East war blueprints for over a decade), many people still seem to be in denial that the Bush...

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Meat Puppets

So I found three photos that illustrate how quickly a complex human being can be reduced to a piece of meat and all his varied drives reduced to a single post-mortem cause. This the...

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The Sack of Baghdad

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...

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Wag The Christian Dogs

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...