TV Stations Boycotting Iraq KIA Show

Via Atrios, we learn that Sinclair TV has announced a boycott of Ted Koppel's Nightline show in which he intends to read the names and show a picture of all the Americans killed in combat in Iraq. Apparently, Sinclair is only interested in good news from Iraq. This is...

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Better than Saddam

The general in charge of the US-run prison system in Iraq has been suspended and put under investigation over the alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees by US soldiers. A senior US military spokesman says Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was suspended from her duties in...

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Another Mutiny Over Fallujah

The Independent is reporting that the 36th battalion, composed of Iraqi Arab and Kurdish peshmerga militia , has mutinied. The battalion has been fighting alongside the Marines in the siege of Fallujah. The Independent reports that the Marines separated out those who...

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“The Strange History of War-Death Imagery”

From an interesting article by Charles Paul Freund on images of war dead:The struggle for war-image control began when a camera was first aimed at soldiers in Crimea, but that struggle is hardly founded on the absolutes implied by arguments like the one over the war...

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International Blog Roundup

International Blog Roundup I thought it might be interesting to some AntiWar readers if I put together a post of links to some good blogs written from interesting places that you might not have discovered yet. These are all active blogs that are worth checking daily....

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Fallujah Wanted Poster

Al Jazeera reports that the "Islamic resistance in Iraq" is offering a bounty for Rumsfeld, Sanchez and Kimmitt. This flyer is reported to have been distributed in Fallujah: It says 15 000 000 $ as a reward who bring one of these three heads. It doesn't say anything...

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Big Brother Alive and Well at WND

Guest Blog from Ken Wooley: The one indispensable element that people such as you and "Faux" require to work their mischief is compliant flesh. Bush and his crew need their sweat, in the form of taxes, to finance their global escapades. They also need their blood,...

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Pockets of Resistance

Pocket of Resistance "Our military commanders will take whatever actions necessary to secure Falluja," Bush said as U.S. Marines launched a fresh air and ground assault in the city. Bush said there were "pockets of resistance" in the Iraqi city, but insisted that...

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