Showing all posts in June 2019

“[Cindy] Sheehan has every right to her emotion, as far as I’m concerned, since a war that can’t survive a mourning mother shouldn’t be going on at all.” Guest blogger Walter Kirn at andrewsullivan.com, August 18

The Take is a unique film. Made by Canadian couple Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, it describes the cost of World Bank policies on Argentina in the 1990s and the brave attempt by auto-part workers today to reclaim their bankrupt factory and prove that the old economic model no longer applied. It’s a wonderful documentary…

The financial cost of America’s “war on terror” is usually hidden from public view. Linda Bilmes, an assistant secretary at the Department of Commerce from 1999 to 2001 and lecturer of budgeting and public finance at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, wrote recently in the New York Times that, “if the American military…

The San Francisco Chronicle has finally started publishing Sean Penn’s reflections on Iran. He attended the country during the June elections. His short film is also worth a look and this great Reservoir Dogs style photo. Penn’s journey makes for fascinating reading.

“He’s a great friend of mine. He’s a great friend of America. I am grateful for his courage and his resolve. I value his advice and good judgement.” President George W. Bush offered his praise to Prime Minister John Howard last night as he collected The Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. Howard is a…

Iraqi blogger Sabbah writes about a forum that provides free access to its pornographic content to members of the United States military who are stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan, in exchange for their pictures of war.

Mother Jones investigates Saddam’s nuclear and bioweapons scientists and the lack of American interest in dealing with them after the 2003 invasion: Nobody knows how many Iraqi scientists may have been lured over the borders into Iran, Syria, or beyond. Nobody knows because no one is keeping tabs. But several observers agree that so little…

Margo Kingston has finally left Fairfax and opened up a new (temporary) residence. There is much about this story that remains to be told. Personally, she hasn’t left a day too soon.

“We understand the Americans have sided with the Shi’ites. It’s shocking. It doesn’t fit American values. They have spent so much blood and money here, only to back the creation of an Islamist state. I can’t believe that’s what the Americans really want or what the American people want.” A secular Kurdish politician in Iraq…