Giuliana Sgrena – shot from behind?

Naomi Klein has interviewed Giuliana Sgrena in Rome. The revelations in this Democracy Now interview of Klein significantly challenge the stories we've heard thus far in the press:One of the things that we keep hearing is that she was fired on on the road to the...

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An Israeli Refuser visits the US Congress

Brad Brooks-Rubin writes about visiting the U.S. Congress with Israeli refuser Yonatan Shapira on Andrew Schamess's blog Semitism.net. The American press has clearly found this a compelling story, which probably explains why the American public is so well-informed on...

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Warbloggers expose fake protest

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...

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US troops in Anti-Fratricide training

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...

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RAF Hercules downed by missile in Iraq?

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...

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