The 361 photos obtained through the Freedom of Information Act are now viewable on the Antiwar.com server. Thanks to the folks at WarBlogging.com for getting us this mirror. And great thanks to Russ Kick of TheMemoryHole.org for getting the photos released by the Air...
Being There
Nir Rosen, who is slowly becoming the Baghdad correspondent, offers a raw glimpse into the New Iraq:Hundreds of Iraqis were emerging from the smoke, running away in every direction from the smoking ruin. Hundreds more were just standing in shock, crying, screaming. A...
Fallujah watch
Here's the latest on how the "heavy weapon" turn-in is going in Fallujah. Marine Lt. Gen. Jim Conway, in Fallujah, said only about "a pick-up full" of weapons have been turned in. He agreed with a characterization that the weapons collected so far have been "junk,"...
Teaching Iraqis to be free
Jeremy Sapienza's article today, US Soldiers Puzzled by Iraqi Resistance to Censorship caused me to remember this picture and Rajhul Mahajan just happens to have written an interesting anecdote about this statue, which sits on the pedestal the Famous Toppled Statue...
Double-crossed by NATO?
A retired Russian general made some explosive allegations last weekend about the NATO attack on Serbia five years ago. It was obvious that in June 1999, NATO double-crossed Yugoslavia and Russia, occupying Kosovo despite the terms agreed in the Kumanovo armistice;...
Refugees of Fallujah
Jo Wilding speaks in Baghdad with several of the refugees from Fallujah. “This is my honeymoon,” Heba said, in the crowded corridor of bomb shelter number 24 in the Al-Ameriya district of Baghdad. Married just under a month, she fled Falluja with her extended family....
FOIA Photos from Dover AFB
Russ Kick of the Memory Hole says: >>> Since March 2003, a newly-enforced military regulation has forbidden taking or distributing images of caskets or body tubes containing the remains of soldiers who died overseas. [read more] Immediately after hearing about this, I...
“the Jingoes and the Social Reformers have gotten together”
F.A. Hayek, alleged icon of so many contemporary liberventionists, on the martial nexus between socialism and pop conservatism. Courtesy of Lew Rockwell.
Metablogging
OK, everyone should be able to squeeze at least one blog entry out of their bookmarks, so here are mine. Actually, these aren't my bookmarks (I'll spare you the boredom of that overgrown list), but my "Daily Routine" at Backflip, the first sites I click through each...
LCpl. Boudreaux, Again
I promised to keep you posted, no matter how tedious this becomes. Salon weighs in with a review of the controversy (you'll have to watch an ad to get access), as well as some useful ruminations on visual propaganda and the believe-what-you-want culture of the...