Yalla Ya Jama’ah (Hurry up, folks!) The Department of Defense is having difficulty, according to Fred Kaplan at Slate, in coming up with a policy […]

Oil Workers and Privatization of Iraqi Petroleum An oil workers union in Basra, organized after the fall of the Baath regime, may be the strongest […]

Services Have “Gotten Worse” A returning aid worker for the AFSC says of Iraq: Finally, the city grew too dangerous for Westerners and they left, […]

Talabani President The Iraqi National Assembly is set to announce the formation of a presidential council on Wednesday, selecting Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as president, […]

Huhn? The Real Iraq The unfortunate tendency in the United States to evaluate all statements about Iraq with regard to whether they are “optimistic” (i.e. […]

Another Bombing at Abu Ghraib Sunni Meeting Collapses in Acrimony Guerrillas mounted another bombing attack on Abu Ghuraib prison (this one involving a tractor), leaving […]

Wesley Clark Conference Call Wesley Clark held a conference call on the situation in Iraq with some bloggers Monday afternoon, in advance of testifying in […]

Speaker of Parliament Elected amid Rancor Two more US servicemen were killed by guerrilla attacks over the weekend, and the Green Zone took mortar fire […]

The Other Pope John Paul II was a complex man and among the more intellectual popes in history. Because of his admirable stance against Stalinism […]