Scott Horton's one-hour interview with the courageous Dahr Jamail, reporting from Iraq, is now available on WeekendInterviewShow.com. Among the highlights: Iraq's shortages of water, fuel and electricity, the situation on the ground being so dangerous that Jamail...
Today (Saturday), at 4PM central time, Scott Horton will be interviewing Dahr Jamail, who's near-daily reports from Iraq, as well as hard-news articles make for the most indispensible reading on the occupation. From his Nov. 19 entry; Later Abu Talat comes to my hotel...
Saturday's spotlight may be a first in Antiwar.com history. It's called "Raising the Debt Limit: A Disgrace," and it does not contain any of the following words: Iraq, Iran, Israel, neoconservative, Bush, empire – or even war. It doesn't need to: it's about the...
Because I judge Phil Carter to regularly be both objective and honest, I was somewhat shocked to read in Slate, his accounting of the Fallujah mosque shooting incident. In order to demonstrate where Phil goes wrong, I'm going to use Helena Cobbam's examination of the...
New to the blogroll: *Thomas Knapp *James Wolcott *Our very own Nebojsa Malic *Clark Stooksbury Give 'em a read!
Wow. Now I understand why people use the N-word and the F-word so often – they get results. That one little blogpost got me more e-mails than any "Collateral Damage" I've ever toiled over. So much for subtlety and fine distinctions. Most of the responses were...
Here we go again Secretary of State Colin L. Powell shared information with reporters Wednesday about Iran's nuclear program that was classified and based on an unvetted, single source who provided information that two U.S. officials said yesterday was highly...
Quiddity has designed a new seal for the Department of Justice in honor of Alberto "The Geneva Convention is obsolete" Gonzales: Translation See also the new CIA seal honoring Porter "The Purge" Goss.
McCain acknowledges that the Marine who shot the unarmed wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque committed a war crime. Well, isn't that the logical conclusion? Why else be angry that the film is being aired? Either what that Marine did is OK or it isn't. If it's OK, why...
I don’t think anyone in Serbia has had time to read the Politics of Destruction yet, but it appears I’m not the only one to see things that way. That's encouraging. Here’s some excerpts from an article in the Thursday, November 18 issue of a Belgrade daily, Nacional,...
