"Riverbend" is the alias of a 24-year-old Iraqi woman who started her own blog, Baghdad Burning, back in August of last year to write about her day-to-day experiences and thoughts in the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion. In her entry for February 15th, 2004, she speaks...
Many thanks to the Guardian(UK) for putting together this fascinating collage of opinions on the Iraqi War in their article True Colors. It's an interesting read. In 1937 WH Auden and Stephen Spender asked 150 writers for their views on the Spanish Civil War. The...
James Longley recently traveled to Nasiriyah filming the story of a sheik in Moqtada Sadr's religious-political movement. This is a narrative of his journey, with a side trip to Al-Garraf, a nearby town. There is only one full-time doctor working in the medical center...
He was apparently just first among equals back in 1991, when the U.S. government deliberately destroyed Iraq's infrastructure: Among the justifications offered now [shortly after Gulf War I], particularly by the Air Force in recent briefings, is that Iraqi civilians...
I am not linking to this horrific article to discuss the politics of the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, fifty-nine years years ago today. I am linking to it to illustrate that war is always the most terrible method nations can resort to in settling their...
Got a number of emails re "Why There's No Left Left (Part II)." Eugene Koontz pointed out that 2 of the links in the post were broken. Here they are again: "Why There's No Left Left [Part I]" and "Cash or Charge?" Thanks Mr. Koontz! --- Thant Tessman writes: "Minor...
The story of Geoge W. Bush's rise to wealth and the people who helped him, well worth the time it takes to read this 26-page article from Harpers Magazine originally written back in Feb 2000 by Joe Concson and Kevin P. Phillips while Bush was a candidate for the...
And why the wishy-washy Kerry isn't likely to win. Read an excerpt of Myths of Rich and Poor." Or buy the book (and help out Antiwar.com)! Read "Why There's No Left Left" Part I. To which a reader replies suggesting that the rise in the US standard of living is due to...
What is the White House still hiding? And what are other government agencies hiding? Here are just a few bits of 9/11 information which may not have come before the commission. The politically divided 9/11 commission was able to agree on a public airing of four and a...
I had originally come across this news story back in November, 2003. I copied the link and put it aside, waiting to see what the final outcome would be. Well, I haven't heard anything more about Kirk von Ackermann, 37, a Californian working in Iraq as a contractor who...
