Remember how everybody just knew that the mother and husband of Chicago judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow had been murdered by white supremacists? If you've been following the case in the media over the last week, you likely had no doubt where the guilt lay. White...
I don't buy the theory that the attack on Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena's car was an "assassination attempt" by the U.S. for the same reason I don't buy the Syria-killed-Hariri theories: they make no sense. Killing Hariri would have been a truly suicidal bombing...
Military news programs secure a public outletPentagon Channel programs cover a wide range of issues, but you're not likely to see much coverage of controversial military topics such as the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal or the secret military tribunals of detainees...
One of the most vocal opponents of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, William Rivers Pitt of Truthout, has fallen into the trap set by the War Party. Pitt declares: If we haul stakes and leave, we risk having the country collapse permanently into a Balkanized...
Take Jonathan's disgusting quiz!
The largest Greyhound bus has 55 passenger seats. How many busses does it take to bus a half-million person protest in from Syria? Some warbloggers need to know. Here. Oh, and this makes it even trickier. Those wily Syrians bussed in a half million men! All the...
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...
