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Remembering Iran’s Protests on the 4th of July
Remembering the protests in Iran in pictures and film on the occasion of the America Declaration of Independence: Aljazeera English on “Mousavi and the Masses”, […]
Mousavi Said Calling for General Strike; Hard Liners Call for his Arrest
In what may be a major development, it is being alleged that Iranian opposition leader Mir Hosain Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard are calling […]
Saddam, the FBI and Cliocide in Iraq
Joyce Battle (with help from Brendan McQuade) has posted twenty interviews of Saddam Hussein by the FBI to the National Security Archives at George Washington […]
Cheney Worries about Wasting the Sacrifices made in Iraq on behalf of Big Oil
Dick Cheney reacted to the cessation of unilateral US patrols of major cities in Iraq, saying that he had concerns that the “insurgents” might launch […]
US Forces Launch Helmand Campaign; Pakistani Public turns Against Taliban but Still Rejects US Intervention
Some 4,000 US military personnel and 650 Afghan troops are launching an assault on Taliban positions in Helmand Province, with an aim to ‘take, clear […]
Iran: Mousavi Remains Defiant; Journalists Held
Reuters reports that Iranian opposition leader Mir Hosain Mousavi is continuing to assert that the newly formed second-term government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is illegitimate. […]
Coda: Final Dispatch from Tehran
This message was received by email from Tehran three hours ago. I have anonymized it and made a couple of orthographical corrections and am passing […]
Death Toll in Kirkuk Rises to 33; Growing Arab-Kurdish Violence Threatens Stability of Iraq; 4 US Troops Killed
The casualty toll in the Kirkuk bombing on Tuesday has risen to 33, with about 100 injured. Four US troops were killed in Iraq on […]
With a Whimper, not a Bang; A Milestone on the Way to the End of American Iraq
T.S. Eliot wrote at the end of “Hollow Men” in 1926, “This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.” […]