Well, the polls have closed in Iraq. As yet, I'm finding very little information on how it went. The usual suspects are mostly silent on the issue - unlike for the January election, the buzzmachines aren't buzzing for this one. Fluffing this sad post which points to...
Your one stop shop for analysis of the denouement of Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigation is Jane Hamsher's blog firedoglake. ReddHedd has been a posting machine the last few days.The news is flying fast and furious this evening: Raw Story has an excerpt from...
Publius is making sense, here:For now, the question across the political spectrum is why Miers? Or more precisely, why not someone from the farm team? I think the answer is simple: torture. Of all the scandals and junkets and leaks and what have you, the one that...
What sort of bizarre "Guest Editorial" is this on Informed Comment today? Billed by Cole as "Guest Editorial: Smith on Libertarians and Iraq" (apparently this Jan Smith), this odd piece reads like an email from the middle of a series, as it makes...
UPDATE: truthout just posted this photo: C-Span is streaming live coverage of the Rally in Washington DC here. William Rivers Pitt is live-blogging here and here. UK Indymedia is posting reports on the London Rally here. ***** UPDATE: WRP posts a little after...
Juan Cole (start at the link and read the next two posts as well) has assembled a timeline of events in Basra which is helpful in understanding yesterday's chaos, while lenin parses MOD's ongoing bizarre series of statements. As yet, the Iraqi and British stories are...
Times reports:Two British undercover soldiers were arrested in by Iraqi authorities in Basra today after exchanging gunfire with Iraqi police and killing one, officials said. The arrests prompted British troops to send a military patrol to the police station where the...
Riverbend is blogging about the draft Iraqi constitutions.
Since some of the sludge has subsided in New Orleans and some survivor stories have begun to trickle in, it's possible to find a new perspective in some of the statements made during the worst of the disaster the government made of the rescue effort. I didn't see this...
Via Alex at Martini Republic, Condoleeza Rice and Bill O'Reilly:O’Reilly: The truth of the matter is our correspondents at Fox News can’t go out for a cup of coffee in Baghdad. Rice: Bill, that’s tough. It’s tough. But what — would they have wanted to have gone out...
