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December 05, 2006

Your fleet is lost, your friends are lost

Emperor, your pain ray is fully operational.

That is, uh, messed up in more ways than I care to express.

October 12, 2006

"The deadliest international conflict of the 21st century."

Sarah Boseley of the Guardian discusses a recent Lancet study showing 655,000 Iraqi deaths since the beginning of the 2003 invasion.

April 18, 2005

Iraqi Resistance

In spite of recent speculation that the insurgency may be waning, the bad news for the occupation forces in Iraq just keeps rolling in. For daily analysis of the slow bleeding of US military might in the fertile crescent, add Iraq Occupation Watch to your bookmarks.

By the way, this weekend I watched the 1965 movie The Battle of Algiers, which has, for good reason, been experiencing a resurge of interest of late.

And finally, as always, trust Doonesbury to hit the nail on the head -- the nail in the coffin of the doctrine of full-spectrum dominance, that is.

January 10, 2005

'The Salvador Option'

The Pentagon May Put Special-Forces-led Assassination or Kidnapping Teams in Iraq

Check out this Newsweek article for an account of the Pentagon's latest modest proposal for fighting 'terrorism'.... Such things are seldom discussed so openly in the mainstream media.

December 03, 2004

Dahr Jamail Interviewed

Hear Canadian chronicler Jason Chesworth's interview with Iraq War correspondent Dahr Jamail, today at 5 PM EST, on CIUT 89.5's Newspeak.

September 12, 2004

IRAQI KURDS’ SUSPICION OF U.S. GROWS

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