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 with a young man explaining how isolated he feels [...]
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 Amendment award: “Translator Fired from FBI for Blowing Whistle on Intelligence Failures to Receive 2006 PEN/Newman’s [...]
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 the Cassini-Huygens probe).
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 real life into profound drama. John Lahr of the New York Times [...]
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.
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 even Bush admits, has become an [...]
