BAGHDAD, Iraq (March 28, 10:23 am AST) - The U.S.-led coalition on Sunday shut down a weekly newspaper run by followers of a hardline Shiite Muslim cleric, saying its articles were increasing the threat of violence against occupation forces. Hours after the closure of...
"You can't escape and you can't hide ... the coalition will find you and bring you to justice." This is a leaflet that the Marines have scattered all over Fallujah, according to Iraqis. In 10 days since the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force relieved the 82nd Airborne in...
Noam Chomsky has started a blog, called Turning the Tide. Here's an excerpt from his latest entry concerning the murderous Iraqi sanctions: There is reason to believe -- as Halliday and von Sponeck had argued -- that if the vicious sanctions regime had been ended the...
William Marina posts the following on the Liberty & Power blog: March 26, 2004 | Daily Mislead Archive White House, 4/01: Focus on Bin Laden "A Mistake" A previously forgotten report from April 2001 (four months before 9/11) shows that the Bush Administration...
Nir Rosen describes the remarkable progress U.S. social workers are making in Iraq:In the beginning of the occupation I entered a taxi and asked the driver what he thought of the events in Iraq. He looked away and started crying. I asked him if somebody in his family...
Can anyone read Juan Cole's posts for today and not wonder if the civil war in Iraq has already begun? Did the Republicans try to kill the 9/11 commission to prevent Richard Clarke from testifying? Is that why his book was in "security review" at the White House for...
Hashim Taqi, the former KLA fuehrer "affectionately" known as Snake, has laid his cards on the table in a screed published (not surprisingly) by the London-based IWPR (a.k.a. Institute for War Propaganda Reporting). In it, Taqi claims his "Kosova" would be: "a...
He said it:Israel may be the Jewish state, but as American Jews, it is not our country. It belongs to us only insofar as we share a spiritual connection to it with Jews the world over. If you're planning to make aliyah in the near future, go ahead and make Israel your...
Thomas Schaller in the Gadflyer has been kind enough to put up a transcript of Richard Clarke's interview by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air program. Clarke distills his argument for why invading Iraq has increased the problem of terrorism into 3 major points. First of...
Last night, President Bush made his presentation at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner, where he made some pretty funny jokes about looking for WMDs in the Oval Office, showing pictures of Rumsfeld looking under carpets. Today, TV is full of...
