Ted Friedman comments on "The New Energy 'Crisis' and Iraq": This is a confusing post that sees to suggest that Peak Oil is a "theory" based on "junk science." Mathew Simmons seems to have excellent credentials. Much better than the author of this post. His quote...
A senior U.S. official summarizes a classified DoD report for Knight Ridder's Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel and we get a look at how the neocons' stovepipe operated.
Paul McGeough of the Sydney Morning Herald has written a devastating article accusing the ex-Baathist Mukhabarat agent and CIA asset US-appointed interim "Prime Minister" of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, of executing as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police...
Israeli soldiers are killing themselves Maariv: According to a report prepared by the Rehabilitation Division in the Ministry of Defense -The report disclosed that for the first time, suicide became the leading cause of death in the IDF. Last year, 43 soldiers...
A second body, described as a "Westerner", dressed in an orange jumpsuit has been retrieved from the Tigris River, this time about 20 kilometers south of Mosul. Unlike the corpse found yesterday, this one was not beheaded, but the man's throat was cut.
The Christian Science Monitor cites Justin Raimondo in an article on the unfolding New Zealand-Israeli spy scandal. In a story on the New York Times' cyber-cluelessness, Wired lists Antiwar.com as one of the "low-budget rabble-rousers" shaking up journalism.
Tim Gillin of the Personal Independence Day blog has emailed us comments on "Guns, Oil, and Neocolonialism": My guess is that Hazlitt would recognize a group of inter-related economic myths that are shared by both neocons and greens, both of which are groups that have...
Nicholas Berg Another orange-jumpsuited headless body has turned up in Baghdad, this time floating down the Tigris River. The body has not been identified yet. American Nick Berg's body was also found dressed in an orange jumpsuit. Berg's murderers claimed that Berg...
An American apology to Iraqis - Thanks to Eli at Left I for links and comments on the Not in Our Name ad Wednesday, July 7 on the back page of the Baghdad daily newspaper Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed declaring "No to torture and occupation.” Be sure and read the comments from...
"You seem surprised to find us here," the man said. "I am," I said. "I wasn't expecting to find anyone." "We are everywhere," the man said. "We are all over the country." "Forgive me," I said, "but I don't understand. Who do you mean by we?" "Jewish refugees." I...
