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You’ve Been Injected with Mass Amnesia
How to Destroy a Country and Get Off Scot-FreeBy Linda Heard, sierra12th@yahoo.co.uk 18/03/08 “Arab News” Someone once told me if you’re going to tell a lie make it a whopper based on the premise the more outrageous the lie the … Continue reading
Iraq Moratorium, Friday March 21st
Iraq Moratorium, Good Friday coincide The convergence of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war on March 19 and the monthly Iraq Moratorium observance on March 21 has sparked hundreds of antiwar actions across the country this week. The Iraq … Continue reading
Cheney in Baghdad
Cheney cites ‘phenomenal’ Iraqi security progress As bombing kills 40By Hannah Allam and Qassim Zein / McClatchy / March 17, 2008 BAGHDAD — Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday made a surprise visit to Baghdad, where he pledged that U.S. … Continue reading
Dowd on Dubya
Soft Shoe in Hard Times By Maureen Dowd / March 16, 2008 Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood. The dollar’s crumpling, the recession’s thundering, the Dow’s bungee-jumping and the world’s disapproving, yet … Continue reading
The So-Called Success of the Surge
Dahr Jamail portrait ©2005 Robert Shetterly.Rule, Not Reconciliationby Dahr Jamail / FPIF / March 17, 2008 As we mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, rhetoric around the “success” of the so-called surge continues. Presidential … Continue reading
Million Musicians March : Alan Pogue
Saturday’s Peace Parade takes off from the capitol. Ragphoto by Alan Pogue.
Nostalgia for Saddam?
Only Saddam Hussein could run Iraq, says aide By Damien McElroy / Telegraph.co.uk / March 16, 2008 Baghdad — A prominent figure in the Iraqi opposition movement that helped propel America and Britain to war in 2003 has said the … Continue reading
No Longer a Nation – Just a Geographic Expression
Inside Iraq – Iraq: Five years on – 14 Mar 08 Patrick Cockburn: Iraq is a country no more. Like much else, that was not the planSunday, 16 March 2008 The death rate in Baghdad has fallen, but it is … Continue reading
A Thousand Spirited Marchers Fill Streets of Austin
Photo by Nancy Simons / The Rag BlogMillion Musicians March:Second-Line Style Musical Parade Protests Iraq WarBy Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / March 16, 2008 AUSTIN — On a balmy Saturday afternoon in Austin, Texas – the little sweet … Continue reading
