William Marina reads Pilger's article and sees it as a discussion of "Israel and the Neocon Connection." Steven Horwitz reads the same article and calls it an "anti-Israel screed." Horwitz's reaction demonstrates why Pilger's piece, The Unmentionable Source of...
Things are getting better in Iraq, right? Riverbend, an Iraqi blogger in Baghdad, comments on this today, March 19th: It's like Iraq is suffering from intellectual hemorrhaging. Professors and scientists are being assassinated right and left- decent intelligent people...
Bush celebrated the 1 year anniversary of his vendetta invasion of Iraq by giving a speech in which WMD was mentioned once. Here it is: Our coalition is also confronting the dangerous combination of outlaw states, terrorist groups and weapons of mass destruction. WMD...
Murray Polner reminds us of the continuing relevance of William Graham Sumner, particularly his 1898 essay "The Conquest of the United States by Spain." Some choice snippets from Sumner: It has become almost a doctrine with us that patriotism requires that we should...
Keep those filthy big-spending liberals from giving WMDs to the kids and STDs to the Islamofascists. Or something like that. Make checks payable to the Boy Bombardier.
From Serbian daily "Blic," March 19, 2004 (UNMIK summary) A woman, representative of UNMIK Police told Blic on condition of anonymity that she could only repeat the statement given by the spokesman of UN Police Derek Chappell about the tragic death of three Albanian...
As Powell walked into a press conference in Baghdad today, an Arab journalist stood to read a statement of protest for the killing by American troops of two Iraqi journalists, cameraman Ali Abdul Aziz and reporter Ali al-Khatib at a checkpoint yesterday. "We declare...
As the media focuses on the anniversary of the start of the war, very little attention is being paid to the accelerating death toll of US soldiers. This morning, two US soldiers and three Iraqis were killed in a daytime rocket attack in Baghdad. Another GI was killed...
According to Orthodox priest Miroslav Popadic, special units of UNMIK police evacuated him and the last handful of Pristina Serbs to the besieged enclave of Gracanica. Burned out of their ghetto, they had sought shelter in the parish hall basement next to the torched...
Serbian Orthodox Church's electronic information service carried the statement of Kosovo Ombudsman Marek Nowicki late Thursday. All emphasis mine: Ombudsman office, Pristina, Kosovo Statement to the Media, 18 March 2004 I once again take the opportunity to appeal to...
