Jeremy Scahill sends along the following:Four members of Christian Peacemaker Teams were taken this past Saturday, November 26, in Baghdad, Iraq. They are not spies, nor do they work in the service of any government. They are people who have dedicated their lives to...
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Sy Hersh about his new article "Up in the Air, and a few other things, and then in the second hour, James Bamford will return to discuss his article "The Man Who Sold the War" My previous interview of Mr....
Check out Don't Bomb Us -- a blog by the staff of Al Jazeera. If only Yugoslavia's RTS had thought of that ... Boris Johnson, British MP and editor of the conservative Spectator -- which has the good taste to run a column by Taki Theodoracopulos -- has pledged to...
Via the Left Coaster blog, this snippet from a piece in the UK's Private Eye magazine illuminates the mystery of how the Niger uranium forgeries came to be incorporated in the U.S. intelligence stream: "When the US State Department finally gave international weapons...
Flashback: Anthony Gregory, April 20, 2004:Just as the number of Americans who have died after Bush triumphantly stood in front of the now-famous “Mission Accomplished” banner exceeds by several times the U.S. death count of 140 before the war “ended,” the number of...
Diana Moon sez:I leave it to the big boys to analyze this'n, meanwhile, please go to page 9, where Bush, or his speechwriter, essentially admits that the largest portion of "the enemy" is composed of "rejectionists", that is, Sunni Arabs "who are against a new Iraq in...
House Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), has bowed to pressure -- see here, here, and here -- and has announced she is now backing Rep. Jack Murtha's "out in 6 months" resolution on Iraq. Of course, Antiwar.com is not taking credit for this sudden...
The Cunning Realist makes the timely argument, working from this Rumsfeldian "epiphany." Read the whole thing, but here's a quote:" For Rumsfeld to try to wish away an overwhelmingly indigenous resistance as if it were no more than a stray...
Or whatever they want to call it, so long as they leave. But before you get your hopes up, see this.
"For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C. sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the...
