Archive for the 'Iraq' Category

14 Nov 2009

Hoh, Oho!

By Anwaar Hussain
Strange title, eh? Wait a bit please.
Hoh is the surname of a former Marine who fought in Iraq and became a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan and who on September 10 this year resigned in a high-profile protest of the Afghan war. In so doing, Matthew Hoh became the first ever [...]

20 Nov 2008

A Letter to America

By Anwaar Hussain
Dear Americans,
With your election of Barack Hussein Obama, you have almost realized the dream of Martin Luther King. Now truly you have a chance to rise up as a nation and live out the proper meaning of the creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
Now you [...]

13 Nov 2008

Remembrance Day 2008

How Should we Honour the War Dead?
by Alan Morrison
The 11th of November is a date which impinges as a dichotomy on our already seared consciousness. Remembrance Day. Remember our war dead – especially from the First World War. Remember the heroes. Poppies. Wreaths. Solemn-faced politicians making a show of care about life and death. Elderly, [...]

28 Oct 2008

Change, or more of the same?

From Pravda. Ru
In a recent article for the Miami Herald, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts discussed two “still-classified” government memos that not only revealed how the United States government, under George W. Bush, authorized and engaged in the use of torture, but also how Bush himself blatantly lied to the American people about this [...]

29 Aug 2008

The Dark Side

The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
“In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, documents some of the ugliest allegations of wrongdoing charged against the Bush administration. Her achievement lies less in bringing new revelations to light than in weaving into [...]

16 Aug 2008

TS Picks

 
1. Rhetorical Questions : James Fallows, The Atlantic
2. Eight Strikes and You’re Out : Thomas L. Friedman, The NYT
3. From Stupid to Moronic to Evil : Paul Craig Roberts, The Baltimore Chronicle
4. The Mukasey Doctrine : Scott Horton, Harpers Magazine
5.Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation : Glenn Greenwald, Salon

03 Aug 2008

TS Picks

1. A Growing Trend of Leaving America : Jay Tolson, US News

2. Can This Planet Be Saved? : Paul Krugman, NYT

3. Afghanistan: Shoals Ahead for President Obama : Immanuel Wallerstein, Agence Global

4. Wrong on Afghanistan : Patrick Seale, Agence Global

5. Beware: ‘Machine Zone’ Ahead : Natasha Dow Schüll, Washington Post
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