From the Times: AMERICAN soldiers in Iraq are being given “anti-fratricide” training to reduce the number of friendly fire attacks against British and other coalition troops, The Times has learnt. Thirty-two “blue-on-blue” attacks on British and other coalition...
In Backtalk: Greg Brownfield: deliberate irrationalism is one of the pillars of fascism -- & the Bushies have rejected the "reality-based community." Scott Erb, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maine at Farmington: Democracy or Republic?...
AP reports that Ramush Haradinaj, the "Prime Minister" of the "provisional institutions of self-government" in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo, has resigned upon receiving the ICTY indictment against him, and is scheduled to fly to The Hague tomorrow. All over...
Well, well, well. I can't wait to see what Bruce has to say about this report:A missile fired by insurgents from the ground probably destroyed an RAF Hercules C-130 cargo plane in Iraq with the loss of 10 British special operations servicemen, an interim report by...
Justin Raimondo's column today inspired me to do this illustration of one of his points:The pictorial representations of the "Cedar Revolution" that have so far appeared in the Western media have mostly been close-up shots of the comelier females waving flags and...
Must read post on the Sgrena shooting: More Anti-Military Slurs from the MSM And, a question about the US account of the shooting. From a US military statement, quoted in Jeanne D'Arc's post on the shooting:About 9:00 pm, a patrol in western Baghdad observed the...
My friend Arthur Silber points me toward the ravings of one Kay Arthur, a popular "Christian Zionist" author and minister, at the convention of the National Religious Broadcasters: "Perhaps the most startling moment of the morning was an appearance by popular...
The sadists at the Pentagon can always be counted on to explore exciting new ways to kill and torture people; The weapons involve Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs), which fire a laser pulse that in turn generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something...
Q: How is a Hate Crime by Muslims in New Jersey Like WMD in Iraq? A: Neither of them exist, but right-wing nutbags believe every erroneous report that they do. Mithras, via Atrios Reading Mithras' post brought to mind this example from the now-infamous GOPUSA website,...
Former U.S. Rep. Sam Gibbons: "I just wanted to tell them you better wake up to the fact that one day MacDill is going to close. They're worried about the oak trees and bar licenses and things like that. But in the long run there's nothing more important than what's...
