In an op-ed in the July 28 New York Times, “Oil and Blood,” Bob Herbert insists on looking at the glaringly obvious elephant in the room that so many on all sides of the Iraq debate are blinding themselves to:… Read moreBob Herbert: It’s the oil, stupid!
The Brownsville Herald reports that the US has temporarily closed its consulate in Nuevo Laraedo following a gunbattle the night of July 28 between drug traffickers armed with grenades, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns. US Ambassador Tony Garza said… Read moreRocket launchers in Nuevo Laredo
Its a little ironic. The Irish Republican Army has actually been portrayed since 9-11 as the “good terrorists,” in contradistinction to Islamic extremists who supposedly have no “grievances” and with whom there can be no dialogue. Henry Kissinger wrote in… Read moreIRA disarmament: irony and skepticism
A US army mechanic, sentenced to 15 months in jail for refusing to return to Iraq with his Army unit, told the military judge in his case that he acted out of conscience, not a disregard for duty. “I am… Read moreConscientious objector Kevin Benderman gets 15 months
How depressing. The lead op-ed piece in today’s New York Times (picked up by several papers around the country, such as the Houston Chronicle) is an open and abject call—not only for surrendering our privacy rights in the name of… Read moreNY Times op-ed page case for racial profiling on subways
No, we aren’t being sarcastic. The Space Shuttle “Discovery”—the first sent into flight since the Shuttle fleet was grounded following the mid-flight destruction of the “Columbia” in 2003—succeeded in docking at the International Space Station this week, but only after… Read moreNASA grounds Shuttle; outer space temporarily safe from US imperialist aggression
We’ve heard this before. As we recently recalled, official optimism on troop reductions in Iraq should give anyone who is paying attention a sense of deja vu. Even under the most optimistic scenario—credited to a “secret memo” and never officially… Read moreTroop reductions in Iraq next year?
A recent story in the Indypendent, the weekly print edition of the NYC Independent Media Center, helps make sense of the conflict between the new labor organizations in post-Saddam Iraq. Via New York’s Independent Press Association: Iraqi labor tour in… Read moreIraq labor unions tour US, air dissension
US Indymedia has posted a short story on the July 22 vigil held at New York City’s federal building to mark the one-year anniversary of the passing of Farouk Abdel-Muhti. That was the same spot where Farouk’s friends and supporters… Read moreFriends remember Farouk Abdel-Muhti
Ya gotta love the New York Post. It may make not even a pretense of objectivity, using shameless locutions like “evil plot,” and it may rely entirely on unverifiable anonymous sources. But it sure makes for fun reading. Report: Bin… Read moreNY Post: BIN LADEN COKE PLOT
In another charming nugget for Jewish World Review July 26, official Islamophobe Daniel Pipes writes “The attempt to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and the Shari’a has begun — but the world is in denial”: What do Islamist… Read moreDaniel Pipes: Islamists seek “world domination”
More ghastly revelations about how your tax dollars are being used to secure freedom in Iraq. Via TruthOut: Witness: Dogs Bit Abu Ghraib Detainees By David Dishneau The Associated Press Tuesday 26 July 2005 Two Iraqis at the notorious Abu… Read moreDogs terrorized Abu Ghraib detainees: witness
