Maliki the Shiite Candidate Breaking news: CNN is reporting that United Iraqi Alliance has informally decided to replace Ibrahim Jaafari with MP Jawad al-Maliki of […]

Jaafari seeks Party Re-Vote on his Candidacy AP reports that Ibrahim Jaafari, nominated in February for a second term as prime minister by the United […]

Cost of War Heading toward One Trillion Dollars Some less ethical automobile salesmen will deploy a tactic called “low-balling.” The young naive couple comes in […]

WSJ: $20 Billion a Year in Lost Arab Tourism Meanwhile, hassling Arab visitors and making their visas difficult to get and being mean to them […]

20,000 Kidnapped? Parliament to Open Amid Continued Violence Guerrilla violence killed at least 19 persons on Wednesday in Iraq. Some reports say that among the […]

James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism 2005 I kept meaning to blog the nice award ceremony held April 12 in New York at Hunter […]

A Golden Oldie: Character Assassination You really only have to write the reply once; the smears don’t change over time. From December 2004: Yes, I’m […]

Political Crisis Worsens as Sectarian War Threatens The Financial Times reports further on the fighting in Adhamiyah on Monday and Tuesday, asking whether the incident […]

Shiites Stick with Jaafari 26 Dead, with clashes in Adhamiyah, Ramadi 26 Iraqis died in guerrilla violence on Monday. 17 corpses surfaced in Baghdad, and […]