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bq. Its tentative form is as a weekly magazine, quite unlike any other weekly magazine that has been started in the U.S. in the past generation. Not only is it about politics (Rusbridger is looking to launch in the winter to cover the presidential-primary season), but the magazine – meant to be 60 percent derived … Read moreEn Guardian!

It seems to me that if you decide to help a country, you do not first check whether it will be easy to do so or not, and then on that basis decide to help. What the hell are the military experts going to assess? Where are the humanitarian experts? The State Department? There are … Read moreBush sends experts to assess Liberia

Iraq update: The look on Donald Rumsfeld’s face lately has not been a happy one. As the Bush Administration and its defenders try to pretend that the war in Iraq is not going badly, the reality is that things are getting worse with little hope for a solution in the near future. Viceroy Jerry has … Read moreIts worse than it seems

The Iraqis shoot the Americans, they torture them, and then get shot some more. The cat is chasing its tail and it ain’t gonna stop any time soon. On the treatment of the Iraqis: Such treatment is anathema to American notions of freedom, American prohibitions on “cruel and unusual punishment” and American concepts of universal … Read moreIraq: The Occupation, International Law, Death and Propaganda

Not only can these guys really write, they must be reading most of the internet every day to link like they do. Here are today’s must read Iraq posts: * “Back in Iraq 2.0: Iraqi Intifida gearing up”:http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/000416.php * “So, Why Did We Invade Iraq?”:http://www.sitehouse.net/jamesbow/001018.shtml * “Warblogging.com: American Death Toll in Iraq Surpasses 200”:http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000677.php For … Read moreIraq Update

Food crisis, food crisis, food crisis all the papers cry. It seems to be getting worse now. bq.. The war in Iraq has made the entire population of 27 million dependent on food aid, leaders of aid programmes say. Before the war that the U.S. and Britain launched March 20 to remove the Saddam Hussein … Read moreIRAQ: Everyone Now Needs Food Aid

I wish I was making up the following: According to Abbas, immediately thereafter Bush said: “God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help … Read moreBush: God told me to strike at al Qaida

The best “explanation/summation”:http://www.minimumeffort.com/nutshell.html of the whole drive to war. It must have been floating about on the Internet for a long while, but I just found it today. Another good explanation of “Why Iraq?”:http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/000218.php

Another article on “Depleted Uranium”:http://ko.offroadpakistan.com/world/2003_06/depleted_uranium.html. Slowly, very slowly, people are starting to talk about it. Once the law and order situation in Iraq starts improving and outsiders are let in, this issue is going to start snowballing. bq. But these grim forecasts were wrong. Despite the advance hype, Hussein’s dreaded arsenal was not the biggest … Read moreWeapon of Mass Deception

Here is another summation of what the world is writing about. It’s been covered in greater depth elsewhere, but this is a nice summation. Today, more than three months after Bush’s stirring declaration of war and nearly two months since he declared victory, no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons have been found, nor any documentation … Read more10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq