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Untamed Atrocity: “Creative Destruction” at Work in Baghdad

February 18, 2007 No Comments

Car Bombs Kill at Least 60 at Baghdad Market (New York Times)

The intent of bombings such as this is clear: someone is trying to draw out the Shiite militias – specifically, the Mahdi Army militia of Moqtada al-Sadr, the only powerful armed faction in Iraq that maintains a quasi-independence from the Americans, the Iranians, the Ayatollah Sistani and the Maliki government.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki cannot simply attack the Mahdi Army directly as part of the “dazzling”

A Man in Full: Bush’s Sexual Fantasies About Bin Laden

February 18, 2007 No Comments

The Angry Arab unearths this insight into the true mindset of America’s oh-so-Christian commander-in-chief, George W. Bush, from a Haaretz review of a new biography of Bush’s soulmate and mentor, Ariel Sharon. Like a DNA sample from a spittlefleck, this little glimpse of Bush gives us the man in his entirety, in his essence: the empty bluster of an impotent drunk; the ineradicable vulgarity of the fratboy mentality; and the uncontrollable sexual panic of a harshly repressed psyche expressing its thwarted nature in fantasies of

Picture Perfect: The Greedy Goons of Troon

February 16, 2007 No Comments

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I think this photo accompanying the New York Times story about rich old bastards in the Arizona town of Troon (guess they dropped the “Pol” from the name) dodging taxes at the expense of children’s education pretty much says it all. Here’s a portrait of an Authentic American Type, the ham-handed, pork-bellied “I got mine so screw you, buddy” backbone of the Republican Party.

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Philsophy, Politics and Economics (PPE): An Introductory Course

February 15, 2007 No Comments

The Western world is the gangster’s daughter
Who went to Yale on the loot of slaughter

Tortured Past: It Didn’t Start With Dubya

February 14, 2007 No Comments

As the Bush Regime hurtles toward its Dubyadämmerung in 2008, with the distinct possibility of a Democratic administration taking its place, it becomes increasingly important to remind ourselves of the bipartisan nature of the policies that the Bushists have promoted so ruthlessly during their time at the top. The only thing radical about Bush-Cheney statecraft has been the brazenness and crudity with which they have pursued long-standing goals and practices of the American Establishment. While it is certainly true that

Ulster on the Euphrates: The Anglo-American Dirty War in Iraq

February 13, 2007 No Comments

This story was published at Truthout.org.

I. Paint it Black
Imagine a city torn by sectarian strife. Competing death squads roam the streets; terrorists stage horrific attacks. Local authority is distrusted and weak; local populations protect the extremists in their midst, out of loyalty or fear. A bristling military occupation exacerbates tensions at every turn, while offering prime targets for bombs and snipers. And behind the scenes, in a shadow world of double-cross and double-bluff, covert units

The Risk Factor: Another Bush Faction Blow to Middle East Peace

February 13, 2007 No Comments

(A brief follow-up to the previous post.)

Not content with shooting down the 2003 concessions-loaded offer from Iran, the Bushists have also scuttled what would have been an historic security pact between Syria and Israel, as Gabriel Kolko notes in CounterPunch. And this was not in 2003, during the high palmy days

Coin of the Realm: The Elite’s Long History of Corruption and Betrayal

February 7, 2007 No Comments

Same as it ever was: elitist fat-cats – sorry, well-connected, respectable businessmen – playing both sides to skim the rich, red cream of blood money sluicing through the backrooms of governments at war. You can see it today in Congressional hearings on the gargantuan corruption of George W. Bush’s criminal rampage in Iraq – but it was there in the very beginning, as Mark Scaramella of the Anderson Valley Advertiser reports in a terrific piece in CounterPunch: Our Founding War Profiteers. It’s an excellent, detailed slice of our

Ersatz Apocalypto: Slaughter and Spin in the Battle for Najaf

February 7, 2007 No Comments

*This is my latest piece for Truthout.org.*

I. Rashomon in Babylon
It has been cast as a ferocious battle against a mighty opponent: a fanatical “apocalyptic cult” storming the holy city of Najaf with hundreds of warriors led by a self-proclaimed Islamic Messiah, their frenzy quelled only at the last moment by a massive intervention of American firepower. But as

Dog Bites Man Dept.: Fat Cats and War Profiteers to Feast on Bush Budget

February 6, 2007 No Comments

Well, here’s some really unexpected news: the main beneficiaries of George W. Bush’s new budget will be the crony conquistadors pumping blood money from Iraq and the “War on Terror,” along with the major investment houses. The losers? Oh, you guessed already: the poor, the old, and the sick.

A nation ruled by vicious cranks, a government placed at the service of the super-rich, an opposition riddled with corruption and cowardice,

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