Serbian president Boris Tadic visited Kosovo this week, touring besieged Serbian enclaves and opposing the occupied province's independence. The visit was met with mixed sentiments by the Imperial press, largely depending on the degree of their Albanian favoritism....
Kevin Carson comes out in favor of torture "under certain limited circumstances." I'm afraid Condi isn't going to like his proposal.
After a year-end holiday slump, Antiwar.com is back on Alexa/Amazon's Top 50 News Site list. Combining reach and rank, Antiwar.com ranks #37 among the Top 50 News Sites on the Web. We are just behind Los Angeles Times, CBS News, and the Chicago Tribune, and just ahead...
There's much speculation going on about the selection of the Prime Minister of the Shiite and Kurdish National Assembly. A couple of items to remember. Parties have three days after election ballots are released to challenge the results. Al Jazeera reports today that...
In Backtalk: Monica Benderman announces the establishment of the Kevin Benderman Defense Committee’s Web site: BendermanDefense.org. John Mayew suggests that we write to our elected representatives in support of Sibel Edmonds, while T. Tunney says that letter-writing...
Bill Maher sure is popular. I have never gotten so much mail about anything as I got about this. The typical message went along these lines; A) I don't have a sense of humour, so B) I am unable to appreciate the subtle irony of Maher's remarks, therefore C) I should...
I had no idea the war was going this badly. The Editors take us right into the bloody trenches of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders with this action-packed report from the home front:BLOGOSPHERE (Reuters) - Declining rates of reenlistment among right-wing pundits is...
On Larry King's mostly unwatchable show, I just caught the thoroughly disgusting Bill Maher say something pretty close to this; "You know, attacking Iraq wasn't such a bad idea; we attacked them because we could. They had no weapons and we could do it. You know, it...
Juan Cole has worked out some numbers for seats by party: United Iraqi Alliance (Shiite): 133 seats Kurdish Alliance: 71 Iraqiya (Allawi = Secular Shiites) 38 Iraqiyyun (al-Yawir= Sunni Arabs) 5 Turkmen Front of Iraq 3 Cadres and the Chosen (Sadrist Shiites) 3...
"Sgt. Curtis Greene loved the military; the structure, the stability. But eight months in Iraq changed him. And the thought of returning led him to a stark proclamation."
