Juan Cole (start at the link and read the next two posts as well) has assembled a timeline of events in Basra which is helpful in understanding yesterday's chaos, while lenin parses MOD's ongoing bizarre series of statements. As yet, the Iraqi and British stories are...
Cindy Sheehan spoke to about 150 people in Union Square today -- but her talk was cut short when a NYPD goon squad charged into the crowd, yanked her off the stage, and pulled the plug on the rally. Whole story here. It isn't clear if she was arrested or not: this...
Times reports:Two British undercover soldiers were arrested in by Iraqi authorities in Basra today after exchanging gunfire with Iraqi police and killing one, officials said. The arrests prompted British troops to send a military patrol to the police station where the...
Riverbend is blogging about the draft Iraqi constitutions.
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show (6-8 pm eastern), I'll be talking with Lew Rockwell from the Mises Intitute about economics, Katrina and the war. In the second hour, I'll be talking again with Antiwar.com's own Gordon Prather about Iran and North Korea. Update:...
Since some of the sludge has subsided in New Orleans and some survivor stories have begun to trickle in, it's possible to find a new perspective in some of the statements made during the worst of the disaster the government made of the rescue effort. I didn't see this...
An interesting nugget from an otherwise boring festival of self-pity:The moment you utter one positive word about the Palestinians or a negative word about Israeli policies, you are branded a Jew-hater, an Anti-Semite, and a Hitlerite-Nazi.Why yes, Michael Calderon,...
In June, John Conyers' mock impeachment hearing "took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration 'neocons' so 'the United...
Via Alex at Martini Republic, Condoleeza Rice and Bill O'Reilly:O’Reilly: The truth of the matter is our correspondents at Fox News can’t go out for a cup of coffee in Baghdad. Rice: Bill, that’s tough. It’s tough. But what — would they have wanted to have gone out...
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