From The Guardian, Jan. 9: One in eight Iraqis have left their homes in what is the largest long-term population movement in the Middle East since the displacement of the Palestinians in 1948, the UN’s refugee agency said today. The… Read moreUN: Iraq biggest Middle East refugee crisis since ’48
From the ITV News, Jan. 15 (emphasis added): US President George W Bush said Iraqi people should be grateful to the US for the 2003 invasion and the removal of Saddam Hussein. He accepted that the conflict, which has cost… Read moreBush: Iraq should be grateful
Boy, this says just about everything that needs to be said, doesn’t it? From Newsday, Jan. 10: Serviceman back from Iraq hit, dragged by cars NEW MILFORD, N.J. – A U.S. Army specialist who had just returned from Iraq was… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Never forget, this is what we’re fighting for in Iraq. It’s about our way of life, remember? From NY1, Jan. 10: Queens Man Arrested After Traffic Dispute Leads To Fatal Shooting The brother of a man fatally shot by an… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Mowing somebody down with an SUV is certainly a rather decisive way to win an argument. Note how this charming incident uniquely merges the respective pathologies of the USA, with its automotive death cult, and the Balkans, with their endless… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Here we go again. We take it for granted that Washington is pressuring Baghdad to execute these guys before they can be tried for the far greater crimes of the Kurdish genocide—because that would raise questions about US complicity. But… Read more“Undignified” death for Saddam buds; Casey: “no guarantees”
It’s a sign of the times that this fringe sect is on the front page of the New York Times Metro section Jan. 15. This story makes clear that Neturei Karta is distinct from the Satmars, an Hasidic sect which… Read moreNeturei Karta in the news
A telling story by Marc Perelman for New York’s Jewish weekly The Forward Jan. 12 (links and emphasis added): A campaign to convince Iran’s 25,000 Jews to flee the country has stalled, with most opting to stay in their native… Read moreIranian Jews resist outside pressure to emigrate
We’ve argued repeatedly that strategic imperatives related to global control of oil are propelling the US towards intervention in Iran. But it is looking more and more like Israel could throw the first punch. Tragically, the bellicose Israelis seem to… Read moreIDF officer calls for strikes on Iran
Scott Ritter is the latest to join the fast-growing chorus that would exculpate the petro-elites by blaming the Iraq adventure—and now the looming Iran intervention—on the Israel lobby. Supposed progressives like Democracy Now! are lapping it up. We will point… Read moreScott Ritter: Israel lobby pushes Iran attack
In a Jan. 12 Washington Post opinion piece, the Trilateral Commission’s ideological guru and Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski comments on Bush’s speech pitching an escalation (oops, we mean “surge”) in Iraq: The speech reflects a profound misunderstanding… Read moreBrzezinski: Iraq adventure is “colonial war”
Impeaching George Bush is a damn good idea. But the full page ad in the Jan. 12 New York Times by ImpeachBush.org appears to be a bid by the unrepentantly Stalinist Workers World Party to garner mainstream liberal support, probably… Read moreStalino-fascists go mainstream
