Month: June 2005

“Alia Amer defends her calling as a service to the Iraqi people – and asks herself every day if the sacrifices they are being asked to make are worth it” in a compelling article for Open Democracy. Is she correct in...

Baghdad was the pride and joy of nearly every neo-con, conservative, right-winger and Joe 6-pack in America after the decisive victory over Saddam Hussein back in ’03.   so how is it going now, Mr. Mayor of Baghdad?It...

As the moon rises. . . Over the Froggy Bottom Cafe. . .All the Night Froggies Come Out to Play!

Robert Parry broke the Iran-Contra Affair in early 1986. Only the rest of the Washington Press was using Ollie North as a major anonymous source, and they just couldn’t give him up. They asked him if Parry’s story...

Cross posted at dKos. As Booman pointed out today: George W. Bush does not think that the Taliban are his enemy. He doesn’t think Usama bin-Laden is his enemy. He doesn’t think former Ba’athists are his enemy,...