Here we go again Secretary of State Colin L. Powell shared information with reporters Wednesday about Iran's nuclear program that was classified and based on an unvetted, single source who provided information that two U.S. officials said yesterday was highly...

Quiddity has designed a new seal for the Department of Justice in honor of Alberto "The Geneva Convention is obsolete" Gonzales: Translation See also the new CIA seal honoring Porter "The Purge" Goss.

McCain acknowledges that the Marine who shot the unarmed wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque committed a war crime. Well, isn't that the logical conclusion? Why else be angry that the film is being aired? Either what that Marine did is OK or it isn't. If it's OK, why...

Review of Arab media for Thursday, November 18: via Abu Aardvark For an idea of how revolting this scene was to Iraqis, see Riverbend.

Three Palestinians were killed by the Israeli Army last night in Gaza. Oh, wait! They weren't Palestinians! They were Egyptian policemen! Oops! If you ever wondered what an Israeli apology looked like, now one actually exists: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon telephoned...

Warfloggers are busy shooting the messenger. Poor Kevin Sites. All his war reporting in Kosovo and Afghanistan and Iraq, and the fact that he's embedded in the most dangerous place in Iraq isn't enough to save him from Republicans on Auto Smear. As with the Abu Ghraib...

Now that Fallujah is smashed into heaps of smoking corpse-strewn rubble, the US Military is gearing up for what they call the "next battle" - the battle for "hearts and minds." The Civilians that famously didn't exist yesterday are now expected to come to a food and...

Lawrence of Cyberia points out the hypocrisy of the sudden favor the Bushistas are showing toward Palestinian democracy. A small bit of the conclusion of a well argued and linked post:The U.S. refusal to countenance Palestinian elections unless they produce a ruler we...

Tom Knapp on the Rape of Fallujah. Read it. Tom also makes a point that needs reinforcing here:* "insurgent, n. A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel."...

I'll let zeynep's excellent rant about this picture suffice: Somebody please tell Lt. Brandon Turner that he's insane, that the Pentagon is insane, whoever is allowing the marines or any American soldiers "rest" on that "plush red carpet" with their shoes, uniforms...