Democracy in Iraq, courtesy of death squads. The Nation reports: The Iraq Special Operations Forces (ISOF) is probably the largest special forces outfit ever built by the United States, and it is free of many of the controls that most governments employ to rein in such lethal forces. The project started in the deserts of…
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Acknowledging the Palestinian problem
Will the Zionist lobby complain about the US making this necessary move? The State Department confirmed today that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians – once the well-treated guests of Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society – will be resettled in the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.…
Jewish journalist would like the chance to pull the trigger
Conservative blogger Michael Totten interviews Zionist journalist and war-enabler Jeffrey Goldberg. They talk about many things, including occupation, Iraq, bombing Iran, Judaism, bombing Iran, Palestinian hatred of Israel, Hamas and the bombing of Iran. Welcome to the insulated and aggressive world of cocooned Zionism: Goldberg: And here’s the thing. Netanyahu doesn’t want to endanger the…
Tone down the Obama love
Mondoweiss writes: Sharing a cab to JFK, business for him, a frolic for me, Antony Loewenstein challenged me, If Israel bombs Iran, then you really… have to get over your adoration of Obama. But I said I wouldn’t. I would say… that Obama was compelled to accept the disaster, against the very fiber of his beliefs, because…
Robert Strange McNamara is dead
Robert McNamara, the architect of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War, died today at the age of 93. The Fog of War is an eerie documentary about the war criminal: American leaders and generals who prosecuted the Iraq war will one day be seen as the war criminals that they are. History isn’t too kind…
Media past isn’t the prettiest place to revisit
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) reminds us that the current crisis in journalism shouldn’t make us romanticise the past: One thing to keep in mind while worrying about the future of journalism is that its past hasn’t been all that great either. Journalism ought to be judged not on the profits it makes for…
Iraq has seen it all before
Global Voices editor Salam Adil expresses the appropriate skepticism towards recent development in Iraq: It is like deja-vu all over again. How many times will the media declare Iraqi Sovereignty and us bloggers are expected to stand up and respectfully applaud? First Bremmer handed over Iraqi Sovereignty in June 2004. There was a new sovereignty…
What Iraq means for the average family
A moving essay in the Washington Post, by star writer Anthony Shadid, about one Iraqi family over the last six years. The war has taken a profound toll.
Neo-conservatism in Europe
A fascinating review of a new French book about French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner. The thesis, simply put, is that the humanitarian interventions pushed by the French elite are essentially the same as American neo-conservatives. Democracy promotion is the tag; military power is the supposed answer: Kouchner has spent the last three decades trying to…
Victory is not theirs
Who says the Iraq war hasn’t been a wonderful success (for imperialism and oil companies)? Furious protests threaten to undermine the Iraqi Government’s plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields in a desperate effort to reverse a steady decline in oil production and revenue. In less than two weeks, on…