American TV and Print Give Up Covering the War

I was chatting with a neighbor this morning about the used birth control device some other neighbor tossed into my back yard. She remarked "and just when things were starting to look up..." "They are!" I said. " The gross nail salon next door is gone!" "I saw! They...

The anniversary last month of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan once again raised the question of whether nuking Japan was necessary, not to mention sane or moral. We usually hear that it saved the lives of half a million or a million U.S. soldiers....

The War Party has been trying to organize a divestment campaign against Iran modeled on the long-running South Africa anti-divestment campaign. AIPAC alerts us to the fact that the California Iran Divestment Bill will be voted on in the next couple days in the State...

Iraq and Vietnam

Jose Padilla and the Descent Into Tyranny

According to news source IraqSlogger, a high-level official from a watchdog group has been granted political asylum in the U.S. Although the tip hasn’t been confirmed as yet, IraqSlogger notes that it comes from a "well-placed source." The controversial...

The latest Zogby/UPI poll shows that Americans have little confidence in any of the Presidential candidates' ability to handle the war in Iraq. When asked: "Which of the 2008 presidential candidates would best handle the war in Iraq?", No candidate receives more than...

If you ever thought that the Crusader Castle on the Tigris was nothing more than a useless, extravagant monument to the American neocons' ego, look where George and Condi's Imperial retinue headed when they snuck into Iraq this time.

In the wake of this week’s rioting in Karbala, Mahdi Army leader and radical Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadrordered his followers to suspend violent activity for the next six months. One of the focuses of the suspension is to eliminate "rogue elements"...