A Blogger's Response from Iraq By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted July 1, 2005. Iraqi blogger Faiza Jarrar says her country's fate is in the hands of an ...
"the war ON Iraq"? So what does this turn of phrase tell us about the presumptions and preconceived notions of this offering? Are we to imagine that the editor...
Stuart, if the Iraqi interviewed by Amy Goodman doesn't do it, try the Mayor of Baghdad. Do you recommend meeting his financial demands? Looks pretty much...
Your point, Ed? I think we can all agree that infrastructure is in very poor condition over there, in substantial part because of the ongoing campaign of...
Sandra Day O'Connor has resigned from the Supreme Court and our most basic rights and freedoms may be in jeopardy. Bush is likely to nominate a replacement as...
[It has occurred to me that we must all become at least intelligent amateurs in areas that will be heavily impacting our lives in the near future. The fiasco...
It strikes me as being the height of madness, given the basic and often desperate need for housing, that destroying rather than building it seems to be as...
[Caught up in Bush's war, one gathers that our military over there feel justified in retaliating against 'enemies' -- real or imagined. One cannot but assume...
[Pardon if this is a re-sending to you. Apparently using the same heading blocks posting to lists, so I have modified slightly here.] [It probably need not be...
[I am passing along in its entirety this report in today's NY Times. I don't think one can achieve full security -- those cards taken to another location by...
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050718&s=holtzman Although the terrible revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib hit the front pages in April 2004, no...
Interesting. But what if it's not an avalanche? Why, after all, assume it is? Events in history do have a tendency to proceed in unpredictable ways and it is...
Ed wrote: "The majority of the Salafi movement are inherently peaceful and have over 30 million adherents." On what basis can you say this? If you mean that...
... Hmmm, maybe because none have ever been shown to have favored, supported, ordered or tried to cover up those abuses. Unless you assume they are responsible...
Expect that was about what Chamberlain had to say to his wife: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRchamberlain.htm But I prefer a specialist's views here on...
At the risk of exposing your anti-Muslim prejudices, Stuart, there is a core element of violence in virtually all the world's religions. You are watching same...
"It would be hard to systematically torture in known detention centres, but you can't track a secret world. The secret locales are one part of the whole...
... is a ... You know that what I am saying is not a matter of prejudice but a statement of fact, Ed. We have already discussed all this here and it doesn't...
A "specialist" whose underlying thinking is in accord with your own, of course. How about those "specialists" whose views aren't? How about Bernard Lewis? How...
Conservative Groups Rally Against Gonzales as Justice By ADAM NAGOURNEY, TODD S. PURDUM and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Conservative groups have warned President Bush...
... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/politics/politicsspecial1/03scotus.h tml?th&emc=th ... the ... libertarians ... Do you think such pejorative comments are...
You are incorrigible, Stuart -- or shouldn't I be that ad hominem ;-) ... -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if...
I look forward with bated breath to the spin which our own very answer to Dr Gobbles (or is it merely Lord Haw Haw) will put on this one. Over to you Stewart...
More of the Same. I seem to remember that we went into Iraq for regime change because of the human rights violations of the Baathist Regime, or was it WMD, of...
John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man offers an overview of the U.S. depredations during the past half century that are now being projected into the...
Revealed: grim world of new Iraqi torture camps Secret torture chambers, the brutal interrogation of prisoners, murders by paramilitaries with links to...
I don't do spin. I leave that to you guys. if the Iraqi forces are using torture then that is reprehensible and something we should deplore. It would be the...
... ) No that's not "ad hominem." All you are doing is commenting on my person, not my argument. If you intended to say that my argument was deficient because...
I wonder to what extent one can fight vicious, brutal terrorists without succumbing to the use of some of the methods they make use of. After all, a war...
This is where you fail totally, and are demonstrating your potential to be a war criminal. Part of my job it to teach the ethics of the law of conflict in a...
