Strange, but for some reason, today the Washington Post decided to run the Larry Franklin plea deal story on page B-1 – the Metro section.
According to the great libertarian journalist Jim Bovard, in today’s Maryland edition,
It is below the fold, next to an article about a geezer from New Orleans who was re-united with his [...]
After spending almost three months in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from jail today.
She was released after she had a telephone conversation with the Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, sources said. In that conversation, Libby reaffirmed that he had released Miller from a promise of confidentiality [...]
So all the left-liberals who thought that the nomination of Bolton to the UN would mean the death of that organization — that it would unleash the U.S. to dominate the world — should consider Bolton’s latest move: opposing a bill to withhold funds to the UN.
Hmmm. When will left-liberals learn that the United Nations [...]
Writes Andrew Sullivan:
This blog broke the story of more Geneva Convention violations recently: the posting of mutilated and dead Iraqis photographed by U.S. soldiers on a website also devoted to porn. Now, there’s an investigation. No other blog, to my knowledge, followed up.
Well, I guess you can’t call it a follow-up, since this blog addressed [...]
Joshua Frank writes:
In a recent article in these pages, I criticized Cindy Sheehan for going soft on Hillary Clinton’s warmongering. Well, I was wrong. Sheehan hasn’t gone soft on Clinton; she’s attacked the New York senator for her hollow position on the Iraq conflict.
At a rally outside Hillary Clinton’s office in New York, Cindy [...]
The “why the heck is Nancy Pelosi voting for the war” rally was great: thanks to United for Peace and Justice (Bay Area chapter) for making it possible. It was gratifying to see some of my readers there: they came up and introduced themselves, and I’m glad I could be of some assistance in building [...]
Cindy Sheehan was just arrested during a sit-down protest on the sidewalk in front of the White House.
The sickening manipulation of ethnic and religious passions by the War Party is nowhere more dramatically demonstrated than in this “rapid response alert” sent out by someone in the office of the Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco, the Peninsula , Marin, Sonoma Alameda and Contra Costa Counties:
“PRO-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS – SEND A MESSAGE OF [...]
Just got back from the antiwar march in San Francisco: easily 20,000 people out in the streets. I’ll have more about it in my Monday column, but I just wanted to let you know about an event I found out about at the rally. “Code Pink,” the antiwar group famous for mocking and harassing the [...]
UPDATE: truthout just posted this photo:
C-Span is streaming live coverage of the Rally in Washington DC here.
William Rivers Pitt is live-blogging here and here.
UK Indymedia is posting reports on the London Rally here.
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UPDATE: WRP posts a little after noon:
Saturday 24 September 2005 12:06 PM
The march just got huge all of a sudden. Medea Benjamin [...]
I asked once before: “Is the United States a Terrorist State”?
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I’ll be talking with Anne Norton about her book, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, and with professor Juan Cole about the situation in Basra and the Iraqi constitution.
Update: Antiwar.com correspondent Debbie Clark will be calling in with a report from DC as well.
Update2: Show’s over, [...]
