My friend, Amar Bakshi, has been traveling the world over the last months writing a blog for the Washington Post called, “How the World See America.” His aim? To discover how the US is viewed in a host of countries including India, Kashmir and Pakistan. Some of his strongest posts include this one from Pakistan…
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Will the French have the last laugh?
How ironic would it be if the French ended up saving America’s behind…again. After years of shunning involvement in a war it said was wrong, France now believes it may hold the key to peace in Iraq, proposing itself as an “honest broker” between the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions. Even the man who coined…
Are we allowed to compare Iraq to Vietnam?
Since the insurgency in Iraq started giving the occupation a headache, critics of the war have been criticized for daring to compare the Iraq quagmire with Vietnam. Leading the attacks has been Glenn Reynolds. The last time Bush acknowledged the similarities between the two conflicts, war supporters ignored it and hoped it would be forgotten,…
Bush’s humiliation continues
Who could have imagined that in the space of 24 hours, the US president would have to back down from his demands and rush to endorse Nouri al-Maliki after an irate comment from the Iraqi Prime Minister? Iraq’s prime minister lashed out Wednesday at U.S. criticism, saying no one has the right to impose timetables…
Highlighting the danger
Scott Ritter, Truthdig, August 22: The vice president [Dick Cheney] is the single greatest threat to American and international security in the world today. Not Osama Bin Laden. Not the ghost of Saddam Hussein. Not Ahmadinejad or Kim Jung Il. Not al-Qaida, the Taliban, or Jose Padilla himself. Not even George W. Bush can lay…
Blogging for democracy around the world
Global Voices is an essential source of information about the internet around the world, highlighting voices usually ignored by the Western media. They’ve interviewed me about my recent world travels, forthcoming book on the internet in repressive regimes and net-related issues.
Wet dreams of the right
Fascism, anyone? If President Bush copied Julius Caesar by ordering his army to empty Iraq of Arabs and repopulate the country with Americans, he would achieve immediate results: popularity with his military; enrichment of America by converting an Arabian Iraq into an American Iraq (therefore turning it from a liability to an asset); and boost…
No peace coming
Yoel Marcus, Haaretz, August 21: August. The holiday month, the month in which politicians close up shop to rest and relax. In theory, August is a fun month. But August is different here than it is anywhere else. Take, for example, the relations between Syria and Israel. Do they want to talk about peace, or…
End the war
Iraq Veterans Against the War speak out: Momentum is building: Members of a leading Iraq war veterans’ organization voted this weekend to launch a campaign encouraging U.S. troops to refuse to fight. The decision was made at the group’s annual membership meeting, held this weekend in Saint Louis, Missouri alongside the annual convention of the…