Month: July 2005

Juan Cole flagged an article in Open Democracy today that reports on the escalating oppression of women in Iraq. Women in Saddam’s Iraq lived under a system that promised them freedom from gender-based oppression. Even...

images: The father, third from left, and other family members of Hadi Hasan, cry over his body at a morgue in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 11, 2005. Hasan, an employee of the Ministry of Electricity, was shot and killed Sunday in...

Update [2005-7-19 19:9:9 by susanhu]: MSNBC says it is not Clement.Update [2005-7-19 15:22:45 by susanhu]: “The Supreme Court Nomination Blog just found out that Specter’s office just sent around a note referring...

“The National Rifle Association has abandoned plans to hold its 2007 convention in Columbus following the passage of a ban on assault weapons by city officials,” reports the WaPo. The convention would have drawn up...

When I commented that Niger is actually an interesting place to visit (in response to diaries cutting apart those snarky comments that Joe Wilson wanted to go to Niger for a free vacation), I was asked to tell a little more...