Updated at 11:58 p.m. EDT, July 29, 2007Most of the country is celebrating the Iraqi soccer team’s championship win in the Asian Cup; however, security forces are bracing for what may be an excuse for extra violence. Several cities have car curfews in place. In...
A Blurry Line Between Propaganda and News
A shocking thing happens midway through Norman Solomon's documentary film War Made Easy. While analysing the George W. Bush administration's lead-up to the Iraq invasion, Solomon plays a news clip of Eason Jordan, a CNN News chief executive who, in an interview with...
Iraq: Finding the Diamonds?
Last week's briefings for the press by U.S. civilian and military officials in Baghdad were uniformly upbeat, cautious, and predictable. The first half of the message was straightforward: "Don't judge too early. Give the 'surge' a chance." One division...
In Iraq, Soccer Succeeds Where Politics Fails
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi football victory seems to have united Iraqis across the country where politicians only divide it. The Iraqi football team defeated South Korea 4-3 in Malaysia Wednesday to gain entrance into the finals of the Asian Cup. That set off a wave of...
Allergic to the Truth
I know that being a lame duck can make presidents act strangely, and this president has never had anything more than a nodding relationship with reality itself, let alone a deep-seated concern for truth. But it seems to me that President Bush has become almost...
Armageddon Bring It On
Last week the Christians United For Israel organization held its annual show-of-force in our Nations Capital and Max Blumenthal recorded for posterity if, God Willing, there is to be one this most "politically extreme, outrageous" spectacle....
Saturday: 89 Iraqis Killed, 53 Wounded
Updated at 6:35 p.m. EDT, July 28, 2007At least 89 Iraqis were killed and 53 were wounded in the latest round of attacks. No foreign military were reported killed, but a Turkish villager was killed when he refused to feed Kurdish rebels. In Baghdad, 20 unidentified...
Media Spin on Iraq: We’re Leaving (Sort of)
Last week, a media advisory from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" announced a new series of interviews on the PBS show that will address "what Iraq might look like when the U.S. military leaves." A few days later, Time magazine published a cover...
The Withdrawal Follies
Withdrawal is now so mainstream. Last week, debate about it led to a sleep-in protest in the Senate and, this week, it's hit the cover of TIME Magazine, of which there's no mainer-stream around. The TIME cover couldn't be more graphic. The word "IRAQ" is in giant...
Militarism America’s State Religion
This has got the War Party in an uproar: Michelle Malkin's head is spinning practically off its axis, like Linda Blair in The Exorcist, only faster, the boys over at Powerline are hotly demanding an "explanation," and, to top it off, Jonah Goldberg, of all...


