Check out this video from the BBC, via Information Clearing House, about the 130 mile march of antiwar Iraq veterans from Mobile, Alabama to St. Bernard's Parish in New Orleans, Louisiana: We're Sorry: Former US soldiers on the personal cost of war in Iraq. It begins...
Sibel Edmonds Wins Free Speech Award
PEN American Center, "the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization," has decided to give Sibel Edmonds, the "most gagged person in American History" their First...
Istanbul Was Constantinople
Howard Kaloogian, California congressional candidate and co-founder of Move America Forward, gets busted passing off a photo of Istanbul as evidence of a bloodless, bustling Baghdad. Kaloogian pleads confusion (scroll down to actual Baghdad photo, apparently taken by...
New Play Explores Genesis of Iraq War
Previews of David Hare’s new play Stuff Happens began last night at New York City’s Public Theater. The play explores the reasons for the war in Iraq using characters ripped from the headlines; actors actually play Bush, Powell, Blair, Rice and Rumsfeld, transforming...
Pipes gets it wrong
when he says,"I wish Iraq well, but I as a foreign policy analyst from the United States am not willing to take responsibility for what takes place in Iraq."It is your responsibility, not simply for being an American, but because you pushed it.
Margolis gets it right
when he says,"The only way to drive U.S. influence out of the Muslim world, bin Laden has long maintained, is to tie it down in a series of small wars that bleed it financially. The nearly $10-billion-a-month wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are doing just that. Iraq, as...
This Man’s Army
Via Scott Horton, the human rights attorney (no relation): Eric Haney, the former command sergeant major of Delta Force, and a key advisor to CBS’s program “The Unit” gives an interview to the LA Daily News and puts it straight.“Q: What do you make of the torture...
Robert Dreyfuss Interview
Tuesday afternoon I talked with investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss about America's switching sides in the Iraq civil war and the likelihood of conflict with Iran. Click here to download the mp3. (about 40 minutes)
A Lie Supreme
In a brief on the Hamdan case before the Supreme Court, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) argue that a a bill passed last December invalidates Hamdan's suit. They cite their own remarks in the Congressional Record during the debate on the Detainee...
Simple Yet Profound
Perhaps you already thought of it, and perhaps I should have thought of it, but one of my readers (who wishes to remain anonymous) recently gave me something simple yet profound about Iraq's WMD: The thought that occurred to me from the first mention of WMD's and...