The Lancet study explained

I have refrained from writing about the stunning conclusions in the Lancet study which claims 100,000 excess deaths since the US/UK invasion of Iraq. Although extensively peer reviewed and done with accepted methodology for war conditions (I'd link to Spencer...

read more

Shosei Koda found beheaded

A headless body believed to be that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda has been found in Baghdad today. The body was found just off Haifa street wrapped in an American flag.

read more

“Iraqi forces” massacre civilians

I have no idea what this is all about, but this is the first time I've ever heard of "Iraqi forces" responding to a US convoy bombing. Witnesses told Associated Press Television News that an American convoy was attacked early Saturday near the town of Haswa, about 25...

read more

They Hate Us Because We Are Free

Bin Laden responds: Bin Laden said he wanted to explain why he ordered the suicide airline hijackings that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon so Americans would know how to avoid "another disaster." "To the U.S. people, my talk is to you about the best way to...

read more

More “Wild Charges” about Al Qa Qaa

Click to enlarge pictures, video at the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS link Just as the images from inside the Abu Ghraib prison forced the Bush administration to deal with the previously stonewalled allegations of torture in US detention facilities it seems the same thing may...

read more

True Believers and the Looting of Iraq

What is it with the warhawks' sudden recognition of the hypocrisy of the now discarded justification for the invasion of Iraq being to "disarm Saddam?" For an example, Andrew Sullivan, disillusioned Bushie war cheerleader writes:The reason the story of missing...

read more

Theoretical – the ideal candidate

I saw Ron "Spread Liberty at Gunpoint" Bailey take this quiz over at Reason's Hit & Run blog. The quiz said Bailey should vote for Badnarik and my ideal candidate is Theoretical, which seems about right. There's no "Nuke Mecca" question or any form of government...

read more

Throw all the bums out

Two writers, one from the hell that is Baghdad under Bush and the other from the nascent Police State that is the US under Republican Emperor Dubya the Divine make the case for throwing the current bums out of power in Washington. Lew Rockwell:Many bad things would...

read more