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Juan Cole

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White Phosphorus Round Up George

White Phosphorus Round Up George

Juan Cole

White Phosphorus Round-up George Monbiot of the Guardian weighs in on the current state of the debate on the US military’s use of white phosphorus at Fallujah. I think he is too categorical about many ambiguous issues. Long-time readers know that I am from a military family, and I want to be very careful about […]

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Dulaim Chiefs Murder Splits Iraqis

Dulaim Chiefs Murder Splits Iraqis

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Dulaim Chief’s Murder Splits Iraqis Guerrillas detonated another bomb in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 2 and wounding another 2. The murder of Khadim Sarhid al-Hamaiyim, leader of a branch of the Dulaim tribe, on the outskirts of Baghdad, has been interpreted in different ways by Iraq’s ethnic groups. The hard line Sunni Association of Muslim […]

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Bush As Press Assassin Baathist In

Bush As Press Assassin Baathist In

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Bush as Press Assassin? Baathist in a Mirror The Mirror broke the story on Tuesday that a secret British memo demonstrates that George W. Bush wanted to bomb Aljazeera’s offices in Doha, Qatar, in spring of 2004. The subject came up with Prime Minister Tony Blair of the UK, and Blair is said to have […]

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Massacre In Kirkuk Bush Suppressed Cia

Massacre In Kirkuk Bush Suppressed Cia

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Massacre in Kirkuk Bush Suppressed CIA Report exonerating Saddam of al-Qaeda Ties On Wednesday morning, a shaikh of the Dulaim tribe and 3 sons and a son-in-law were shot dead in West Baghdad. The Dulaim are mostly strong Sunnis and many Dulaim in Anbar province are part of the guerrilla movement. AP reports that in […]

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Iraqis Ask For Withdrawal Timetable Ap

Iraqis Ask For Withdrawal Timetable Ap

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Iraqis ask for Withdrawal Timetable AP reports on the results of the Cairo national reconciliation conference, attended by the major Iraqi political factions, including Sunni Arabs. Al-Hayat gives the orginal Arabic wording of some articles of the agreement. One provision says, “We demand the withdrawal of foreign forces in accordance with a timetable, and the […]

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Sharons Critique Of Authoritarian

Sharons Critique Of Authoritarian

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Sharon’s Critique of the Authoritarian Likud Party Ariel Sharon’s resignation from the Likud Party is a more forceful critique of that party than any I have offered. Likudniks are notoriously unable to deal with being criticized, so my simple and accurate characterization of the party as having colonialist and fascistic tendencies has driven its acolytes […]

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Guest Editorial On Murtha Achcar And

Guest Editorial On Murtha Achcar And

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Guest Editorial on Murtha: Achcar & Shalom “On John Murtha’s Position” by Gilbert Achcar and Stephen R. Shalom There is much of which to approve in the recent speech of Rep. John P. Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, on Iraq. The hawkish Murtha had been critical of the Bush administration’s handling of the war for some […]

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Link Exchange Courtesy Link Exchange

Link Exchange Courtesy Link Exchange

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Link Exchange Courtesy Link Exchange for Informed Comment Acid Test. Politics and science. Against the War on Terror. Amicus For Peace. Christian, Jewish and Muslim Dialogue. Ansonia Ventures. Political images. Baker Muckraker. Political comment. The Blue State: The Daily State of Democracy in America. The Brand New Bag. Political comment. Bustard Blog. A Place to […]

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Blogroll Political Journalism Talking

Blogroll Political Journalism Talking

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Blogroll Political Journalism Talking Points Memo – Joshua Micah Marshall (Progressive politics, elegantly argued.) Air America (Progressive Web Site with Radio Stream) Huffington Post. Helena Cobban – Just World News (Veteran journalist, Middle East) The Global Beat: Resources for the Global Journalist TomDispatch.com (Tom Engelhardt, The Nation Institute) Majority Report Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo […]

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