Author: sybil

Sean Penn travelled to Iraq in 2003 and sent back two dispatches for the San Francisco Chronicle. Yes, he has the press credentials in spite of the right wing taunts about his being only an actor, a leftie actor. His writing is...

Walking down mainstreet today, in my town, I walked by the little dogs in the barbershop window. While taking photos, the owner came out and gave me his card, inviting me inside to take a shot without the glass reflections....

This AP story did not appear in the NY Times or the Washington Post, today (that I could find). There was a crackdown in Baghdad which began last Sunday, 29 May. The US named it Operation Lightning. 40,000 Iraqi security forces...

In Lybia Lybian journalist Dhayf al-Ghazal critical of al-Qadhafi (Kaddafi) tortured and killed. Al-Ghazal was a  contributor to al-Zahf al-Akhdar (the Green March). In a press statement, al-Raqib had said it held the...

From Al Jazeera Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. by Robert Pape, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. A surge in “suicide attacks” in Iraq and elsewhere around...