Saturday Blog Tour

How the Flypaper Theory is working. If you don't understand it you're just unenlightened, like Jim Henley. Via Micah Holmquist, Mickey Z. on Osama bin Laden vs. Pat Tillman zeynep zeroes in on the essential question for the US military, which tried to justify firing...

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If the US pulled out of Iraq….

Matt Yglesias says that if the US pulled out of Iraq, the following would ensue:Many people would die. Oil supplies disrupted. Regional powers get involved. Instability. Terrorism. Death. Chaos. Destruction.That's different from the last year and a half how, exactly?

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Update on the RNC Protester-kicker

I posted yesterday about the blogosphere buzz over Julian Sanchez tracking down the identity of the guy at the RNC Convention who kicked a woman while she was on the ground being restrained by three FBI agents. Here are the latest developments: Jerralyn Merritt of...

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WMD-related dormant program inactivities

Here's what Bush's WMD hysteria is reduced to:U.S. weapons inspector to find Iraq had no WMD, only intentions Drafts of a report from the top U.S. inspector in Iraq conclude there were no weapons stockpiles, but say there are signs the fallen Iraqi President Saddam...

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Mystery RNC Woman-Kicker Identified

It looks like Julian Sanchez has got the goods on the guy at the RNC who kicked the female protester who was already on the ground. Turns out he's a hard-core Republican Bushista who interns at the National Taxpayers Union. Check out the links in Julian's post,...

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Commemorating 9/11 in Fallujah

Riverbend: September 11… he sat there, reading the paper. As he reached out for the cup in front of him for a sip of tea, he could vaguely hear the sound of an airplane overhead. It was a bright, fresh day and there was much he had to do… but the world suddenly went...

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They were all dead…

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad:Yesterday, sitting in the office, another photographer who was looking at my pictures exclaimed: "So the Arabiya journalist was alive when you were taking pictures!" "I didn't see the Arabiya journalist." He pointed at the picture of the guy with...

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How the Israelis set their own hair on fire

Lawrence of Cyberia writes an interesting argument about the genesis of HAMAS, why Al Qaeda has never been involved in the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation and why Israel's tactics might bring Al Qaeda into Palestine in the future. He introduces this...

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Kurdish Follies

In keeping with the US policy of leaving no aspect of the invasion or occupation of Iraq unbotched, the American military is currently assaulting and laying siege to the Turkmen city of Tal Afar. In order to provoke maximum opposition and outrage, they are being...

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A new approach for protests

I think Matt Taibbi has a great idea here:In the conformist atmosphere of the late 50s and early 60s, the individual was a threat. Like communist Russia, the system then was so weak that it was actually threatened by a single person standing up and saying, "This is...

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