Iraqi Parliament Meets to Sound of Bombs Al-Zaman: Guerrillas detonated a car bomb near a US facility in southern Baghdad on Tuesday, but only managed […]

Democracy by George? My essay, “Democracy — by George? President Bush and his supporters are taking credit for spreading freedom across the Middle East. Here’s […]

Women bloggers (and other quiet people) Jeanne at Body and Soul has some thoughtful and right-on observations on the Levy/ Jarvis debate I discussed below, […]

The Blogging Phenomenon Steven Levy at Newsweek asks why blogging is dominated by white males, and what the implications of this configuration are if blogging […]

Parliament Meets with No Government Guerrillas detonated at least five car bombs in Iraq on Tuesday. They detonated another at Baqubah early on Wednesday, killing […]

Citizenship Requested for Sistani Kurdish-Shiite-Sunni Negotiations Al-Zaman The provincial council of Najaf, now dominated by the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, requested that […]

Halliburton Over Charges US Halliburton appears to have charged the US government $27 million to deliver $84,000 worth of fuel to Iraq. Everywhere you dig […]

Dueling Demonstrations in Lebanon In the duel of the demonstrations in Lebanon, the political opposition (a coalition of Christians, Druze and some Sunni Arabs), brought […]

Shiite-Kurdish Deal Collapses Al-Hayat: The Shiite/Kurdish negotiations to form a government before parliament is seated on March 16 have fallen apart, apparently because the Kurds […]