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 Ackerman’s Burnham interview, but his blog is currently experiencing some technical problems – read lenin’s [...]
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.
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 miles south of the capital. After the [...]
My column reappears just in time for Halloween. Read it and quit bugging us about Pat Buchanan’s endorsement, will ya?
Whatever happened to Osama bin Laden, anyway?
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 avoid another disaster,” he said. “I [...]
