It may be time for Chalabi to head for Tehran again. Ahmad Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, will be arrested after the Eid al-Adha holidays, Iraq’s interim defence minister has said. Speaking to Aljazeera, minister Hazim Shaalan, said Chalabi...
Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle. After about a 10-minute standoff during which protesters tore up U.S Army literature, the protesters were...
Yesterday the warblogs and Cult-of-Bush blogs exploded in veritable unison with trumped-up outrage and hysteria which ricocheted throughout their echo chamber in a matter of hours over the story in the NY Times Arts Section on the Iraqi bloggers of Iraq the Model and...
RE: Justin's post Life in Sparta, referring to Dahr Jamail's article on al-Dora. There is an album on Jamail's website that illustrates the story. See here.
Ran HaCohen has one of his infrequent but always worth waiting for articles on the main page of Antiwar.com. Much discussion is ongoing as we watch the spectacle of Israel's Sharon struggling to cope with the loss of his favorite scapegoat. (See peacepalestine here...
Tim Dunlop has a good summary of the Rice confirmation hearings:At the confirmation hearings for Condoleeza Rice today, Senator Barbara Boxer did to Rice what the Bush administration has been doing to the country for the past four years....Read the restUPDATE: Arthur...
Via Yoshie at Critical Montages, a quote from Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil:The US military destroyed Falluja, but simply spread the fighters out around the country. They also increased the chance of civil war in Iraq by using their new national guard of Shias to suppress...
At a time when Iraqi expats all over the world are registering to vote in the forthcoming election, here's a related situation, explored by James Bowen in the Irish Times, to ponder:The elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about is the disenfranchisement of...
From the Department of Creating Your Own Reality: President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in...
The jazzman has a great suggestion:according to an article in ha'aretz, all people who can prove they or their fathers were born in iraq will be eligible to vote in the upcoming elections. this will include hundreds of thousands of israelis. i applaud this broadening...
