You know, I saw this post by Brad Brooks-Rubin on Semitism.net and I wasn't even going to comment on it (this is just an excerpt, please read the entire thing for context): What was this step? It came as part of AJCongress' anti-divestment campaign. The point of this...
How to make a difference in Iraq
L to R: Rafat, Dr. Salam and Raed Raed Jarrar, his family and girlfriend Niki began a project some five months ago to purchase and distribute medicines in Iraq. They thought that being Iraqi (except Niki, who's Iranian), they'd know the best places to distribute the...
Iraqi Victims of American Delusions
Since a murderous, violent resistance movement (which antiwar people predicted) rules much of Iraq rather than the liberation cakewalk and democratic utopia (that prowar people predicted), an inevitable class of victims of the American invasion of Iraq has emerged...
Recommended reading
Jonathan Schwarz has a great interview with Chris Floyd posted. Just so you know what you're missing if you don't go over there and read this interview, here's Chris Floyd on Matt Taibbi (who I vote for as the subject for Jonathan's next interview, if he can't get JD...
“Buds of Democracy” in Iraq
Any guerrilla war has lulls, slowdowns, little coffee breaks that last a week, a month, sometimes years. It doesn't mean the war's over. The VC used to go home when it was time to harvest the rice crop; every time they did, the Saigon PR office would declare that the...
Rumsfeld lectures Iraqi Parliament
All those recently elected Iraqis who've been screwing around like forming a government is no big deal, have had the riot act read to them by Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld’s message was made extremely loudly and clearly in his indomitable style when he told the interim Iraqi...
Why do lies ricochet in an echo chamber?
Clark Stooksbury catches ButtRocket and ElephantProboscis EmEssEmming the AP, again. Same lie, Round 2.
Warblogging conservatives are such jokers
I found this leftover April Fool's joke linked from Roger Simon's WarBlog. It is a joke, right? If it isn't, at least tell me the title of the blog is.
All-New Fallujah Brigades?
64 Sunni clerics of the Association of Muslim Scholars and the Iraqi Islamic Party gave a fatwa calling for Iraqi Sunnis to join the military and police. Juan Cole comments that , "Unlike Sistani's this ruling does potentially change things," which is rather an...
Looking back: “Curveball” and the WMD Lie Factory
"We have teams of people that are out looking. They've investigated a number of sites. And within the last week or two, they have in fact captured and have in custody two of the mobile trailers that Secretary Powell talked about at the United Nations as being...


