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Israel/Palestine: I think the Queen of Jordan puts it quite rightly
As she put it in another interview: "Gaza's children, the dead and the barely living, their mothers, their fathers are not acceptable collateral damage, their lives do matter and their loss does count," said the queen. source: http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/1422360.htmNYTimes on war in Afghanistan
11 pages on the difficulties confronting NATO there. I'm struck by the repetition of tactics and strategic strongpoints from the Soviet-invasion era. :-/Book Review: Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in IraqSo, I hate to sound like a shill, but in the overwhelming (and frequently overweening) volume of literature written about this US administration, neoconservatives, and this disastrous war in Iraq - Thomas Ricks' book deserves special mention ( Read more... )News of the World
1. IRAQ: "Curveball" revealed.
2. IRAQ: waste, fraud, & abuse with military contracts. Apparently only half their contract officers are actually certified to do their work.
3. X-Files: Scratch one Chupacabra, apparently it's a bald coyote.
4. Climate Change: 110 Mayors meet in Seattle. Interesting and exciting political rumble. Of course Bush ( Read more... )"continuing government"
Slate expounds on the controversy and conspiracy theories surrounding NSPD-51Either there are secret provisions that address many of its glaring shortcomings (e.g. who declares an emergency, who declare when it is over), or it is as poorly designed as just about everything else that's come out of the Bush White House ( Read more... )Saturday Wrap-Up + Film Reviews!
I got off my lazy duff early this morning and headed on in to the Farmers' Market. It was even raining fairly strongly, but I decided it would be best to go by foot. Sure enough, got there without too much difficulty, and besides all the rest I bought, I ended up buying an entire box of enormous peaches ("Fairfield"? "Fairweather"? Somesuch variety ( Read more... )Iraq
TomDispatch always posts some interesting narratives, and here are a couple of recent eye-popping ones to read:
1. Schizophrenic in Disneyland
2. Peter Galbraith on the war - and possibly the way out.
3. Planet PentagonWar, protest, politics
This story is quite bothersome. Where is the 'statute of limitations' on such a post-facto diminishment of honours? Would this veteran be at risk of losing his benefits?
Bullcrap political meddling by an institution that really should know better than to inflame opposition is what I'm thinking.Caged Primates in Pro-War Political Protest
Interesting. Actually, I think I cycled past this group yesterday, on my way up to Market. By that point though, the chimpanzees must have already been sent back to their minders, as I don't recall seeing any of those theatrics.
One more reason I'm glad my office isn't in the new federal building.
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