Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Stories on Dec 16th, 2008
Mounting civilian casualties in Afghanistan are helping the Taliban recruiting efforts:
It was 7.30 on a hot July morning when the plane came swooping low over the remote ravine. Below, a bridal party was making its way to the groom’s village in an area called Kamala, in the eastern province of Nangarhar, to prepare for the [...]
Posted in The Regime, War Stories on Dec 15th, 2008
I can’t believe it took this long for this to happen. Imagine what it’s like, being an Iraqi journalist and seeing up close what Bush has done to his country:
UPDATE: The “Matrix” version: Is Bush an Agent?
Posted in War Stories on Dec 11th, 2008
In Afghanistan:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 10 — U.S. Special Forces troops in southeastern Afghanistan killed six Afghan policemen and wounded 13 Wednesday in an incident that Afghan and U.S. officials said was a case of mistaken identity.
The “friendly fire” incident occurred about midnight when troops who were engaged in an operation in the city of Qalat, [...]
Posted in War Stories on Dec 8th, 2008
Via Juan Cole:
Unidentified militants attacked a NATO forward storage center at the ring road (beltway) of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday morning. They destroyed some 150 trucks loaded with materiel and supplies, including humvees, intended for NATO troops in Afghanistan. Peshawar is the capital of one of four major Pakistani provinces, the [...]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, War Stories on Dec 5th, 2008
I can’t even think about this without wanting to throw up. There should be a special circle of hell for KBR.
Posted in Terra Terra Terra!, War Stories on Dec 1st, 2008
The Wall St. Journal has an in-depth look at the Mumbai attacks:
On the 20th floor, the gunmen shoved the group out of the stairwell. They lined up the 13 men and three women and lifted their weapons. “Why are you doing this to us?” a man called out. “We haven’t done anything to you.”
“Remember Babri [...]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, War Stories on Nov 19th, 2008
I have BBC world news on in the background, and I just saw a really shocking segment in which American troops in Afghanistan are fired upon and one man apparently killed. One soldier loses it and starts crying loudly. It was heartbreaking.
I wonder how much sooner this war would have ended if people here in [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Best Healthcare in the World, War Stories on Nov 17th, 2008
In the “better late than never” category:
MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) — Gulf War illness, dismissed by some as a psychosomatic disorder, is a very real illness that affects at least 25 percent of the 700,000 U.S. veterans who took part in the 1991 Gulf War.
It’s likely cause was exposure to toxic chemicals that included [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Stories on Nov 12th, 2008
Posted in Arts & Music, Class War, War Stories on Oct 26th, 2008
Dropkick Murphys:
The story:
Hello there my dearest love
Today I write to you about our sons
The boys start school today
They’re the spitting image of you in every way
Hey son it’s Dad
I hope this letter finds you well out of harm’s way
We saw the news today it frightened your Mom
Now all she does is pray
If I lead will [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Stories on Oct 22nd, 2008
See, this is just too complex for the average right-wing brain:
WASHINGTON — “Joe the Plumber” was only one of two Americans injected into the presidential election this past week. The other was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, whom former Secretary of State Colin Powell invoked in his endorsement Sunday of Barack Obama.
Khan was a 20-year-old [...]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes, War Stories on Oct 21st, 2008
An interview with journalist Sy Hersh.
Posted in War Stories on Oct 17th, 2008
One of my friends was just telling me about this effort to bring home the pets the troops had in Iraq. Seems like the least we could do, huh?
Posted in Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Stories on Oct 13th, 2008
Who rules?
One day, as Zubair was walking home, he noticed that the carpet factory near his house in the southern province of Ghazni was silent. That’s strange, he thought, because he could usually hear the din of spinning looms as he approached. As he rounded the corner, he saw a crowd of people, villagers and [...]
Posted in War Stories on Sep 23rd, 2008
And for once, I’m not being sarcastic:
WASHINGTON — The government plans to substantially increase disability benefits for veterans with mild traumatic brain injuries, acknowledging for the first time that veterans suffering from this less severe version of the Iraq war’s signature wound will struggle to make a living.
“We’re saying it’s real,” said Tom Pamperin, a [...]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, War Stories on Sep 19th, 2008
Why is John McCain covering up what happened to missing Vietnam war POWs?
Posted in War Stories on Sep 16th, 2008
A guide to coming back for Iraq war vets.
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Stories on Sep 11th, 2008
But see, they get to live under much better seats than they did under Saddam Hussein! So it’s all good!
KIRKUK, Iraq — Qader Abdullah Rasoul visited Kirkuk Stadium the day it opened and thought it beautiful. The lush turf was newly laid, and the stands were smooth concrete, steeply tiered to seat tens of thousands [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Sep 10th, 2008
What a frickin’ mess:
WASHINGTON - President Bush announced plans yesterday to beef up American forces in Afghanistan while simultaneously withdrawing 8,000 of the roughly 146,000 US troops now in Iraq. The move means that the president will leave office in January with the level of combat forces in Iraq about where they were in 2007 [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Aug 29th, 2008
Iraq Veterans Against The War:
IVAW members in Denver on Wednesday where they led a march of ten thousand to the Democratic National Convention to deliver a message to Barack Obama calling on the Democratic nominee to endorse the three main goals of IVAW: Immediate withdrawal, full veterans benefits, and reparations for the Iraqi people.
Following a [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Aug 25th, 2008
Arthur Silber:
Biden is unquestionably a foreign policy “expert,” if by that one means that he represents the complete embodiment of the views of the foreign policy establishment. I remind you that the foreign policy establishment is committed to American global hegemony, to be achieved by military domination of the world and by overthrow, covert operations, [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Stories on Aug 21st, 2008
A POW who served time with John McCain says he shouldn’t be the person with his finger on the button.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Aug 21st, 2008
This administration has no intention of ever leaving Iraq. I’ll believe it when I see it:
BAGHDAD - Iraqi and US negotiators have completed a draft security agreement that would see American troops leave Iraqi cities as soon as June 30, Iraqi and American officials said yesterday.
In Washington, a senior military official said the deal is [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, War Stories on Aug 14th, 2008
Kathy Griffin visits the troops at Walter Reed. It’s on at 10 p.m EST.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Aug 13th, 2008
When you get that thing you didn’t even bother to ask for, because you thought you’d never get it?
Now, you just knew he’d manage to get us into another war before he left, and what could be better? After all, isn’t this what the neocons always wanted - war with Russia?
GORI, Georgia — Russian [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Aug 12th, 2008
From what I can tell, this is all about who owns the European oil supply:
TBLISI, Georgia, Aug. 12 — Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said Tuesday he was halting military operations in Georgia because they had accomplished their end, though explosions continued to rattle the now largely abandoned town of Gori.
In a televised statement in Moscow, [...]
Posted in War Stories on Aug 10th, 2008
As the situation escalates:
GORI, Georgia — The conflict between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia moved toward full-scale war on Saturday, as Russia sent warships to land ground troops in the disputed territory of Abkhazia and broadened its bombing campaign across Georgia.
The fighting that had sharply escalated when Georgian forces tried to retake [...]
Posted in War Stories on Aug 9th, 2008
In Georgia:
GORI, Georgia (AP) _ Fighting raged in South Ossetia for a second day Saturday as Russia sent hundreds of tanks and troops into the separatist province and dropped bombs on Georgia that left scores of civilians dead or wounded.
Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a major offensive Friday to retake control of breakaway South [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Aug 6th, 2008
Go read Juan Cole.
Posted in War Stories on Aug 5th, 2008
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