The War Party has been trying to organize a divestment campaign against Iran modeled on the long-running South Africa anti-divestment campaign. AIPAC alerts us to the fact that the California Iran Divestment Bill will be voted on in the next couple days in the State...
Iraq and Vietnam
Jose Padilla and the Descent Into Tyranny
According to news source IraqSlogger, a high-level official from a watchdog group has been granted political asylum in the U.S. Although the tip hasn’t been confirmed as yet, IraqSlogger notes that it comes from a "well-placed source." The controversial...
The latest Zogby/UPI poll shows that Americans have little confidence in any of the Presidential candidates' ability to handle the war in Iraq. When asked: "Which of the 2008 presidential candidates would best handle the war in Iraq?", No candidate receives more than...
If you ever thought that the Crusader Castle on the Tigris was nothing more than a useless, extravagant monument to the American neocons' ego, look where George and Condi's Imperial retinue headed when they snuck into Iraq this time.
In the wake of this week’s rioting in Karbala, Mahdi Army leader and radical Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadrordered his followers to suspend violent activity for the next six months. One of the focuses of the suspension is to eliminate "rogue elements"...
American Fascism
Marching Toward War With Iran
The Iraqi Disaster They Call Success
