July 2005
Addicted to occupation: Bradley Burston
God, grant me the serenity to leave the places I can leave. Give me the courage to stand and defend the places I should. And the wisdom to know the difference.
June 2005
Do you people live on planet earth?
Why is it that we Europeans can no longer understand our own peace and contentment and safety and our extraordinary luxury and our futuristic living standards and our God-like good fortune and our long, wonderful lives?
Three Things About Iraq - NYT
If the war is going according to plan, someone needs to rethink the plan.
Joe Conason at Salon.com: Karl Rove is a liar and a scoundrel. He is not a patriot but a pure partisan, as his own record proved long before now.
In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.
Two years on, the echoes of Vietnam are getting louder
American defeat in 1975 brought about Vietnamese unification, while American failure in Iraq will almost certainly precipitate that country's fragmentation.
Blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel
The American public is increasingly disillusioned by the Iraq war, and Bush's triumphalism only makes things worse
May 2005
Regime change is illegal: end of debate: Alasdair Palmer
I would never do anything against the advice of the Attorney General: Tony Blair
April 2005
ei: The Case Against Alan Dershowitz: The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel vs. Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz is a well-known lawyer and professor at Harvard Law School, a prolific author, and makes regular appearances in the media
Jonathan Freedland: Reviled as outsiders
"This is so wrong. We should be on the same side."
Jewish MP pelted with eggs at war memorial
The sheer ignorance never mind the lack of respect is shocking. They have no idea where their freedom came from and who gave it to them.
Ian Rutledge in the Financial Times:
US appears to have fought war for oil and lost it
Lecturers may boycott Israeli academics
Israeli academics who refuse to condemn their government's actions in the occupied territories risk a boycott by the UK's leading lecturers' union.
March 2005
As war stretches on, recruiters scramble
Last month, the US Army missed its monthly recruiting target for the first time since 2000. The Army National Guard and Reserve haven't reached their monthly targets since October.
A military tribunal determined last fall that Murat Kurnaz, a German national seized in Pakistan in 2001, was a member of al Qaeda and an enemy combatant whom the government could detain indefinitely at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The three military officers on the panel, whose identities are kept secret, said in papers filed in federal court that they reached their conclusion based largely on classified evidence that was too sensitive to release to the public.
Dead Iraqis; Why an Estimate was Ignored, The Lancet Study Why an Estimate was Ignored
To the extent it was covered at all, the reports were short and usually buried far from the front pages of major newspapers. The results of the study could have played an important role in future policy decisions, but the press’s near total silence all
A revolution made for TV
Tuesday, half a million people demonstrating in the streets of Beirut, chanting and waving flags. You probably assumed that they were protesting against the Syrian presence in Lebanon. In fact it was a rally organised by Hezbollah in support of Syria
February 2005
Johann Hari: Don't let the Livingstone row blind us to the real and growing threat of anti-Semitism
It seems that human rights abuses committed by Jews provoke more rage than abuses committed by others
Sunday Times: Putting the fear of God into Holland
The Dutch have rejected liberalism in response to Islamic immigration. Some say they are now too hardline. So what can the rest of Europe learn from their crisis?The Dutch have rejected liberalism in response to Islamic immigration. Some say they ar
The Painful Truth
The Iraq war is a new kind of hell, with more survivors - but more maimed, shattered limbs - than ever. A revolution in battlefield medicine is helping them conquer the pain.
Send a White Feather to Jonah!
Let's send white feathers to a prominent chicken hawk who is willing to vilify anyone who opposes the war in Iraq but seems to have many reasons for staying safe here.
Amygdala on Professor Juan Cole:
Virulently anti-American, and negative...Oh, wait....
Iraq: a peculiar peace
Post-election Iraq is neither a 'new democracy' nor an Islamic state in waiting, but a nation pacified by stasis.
Shias win Iraqi election
The United Iraqi Alliance, a Shia coalition assembled by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has won the Iraqi elections, taking over 4 million votes, or about 48 percent of the ballots cast, officials said today.
Learning to Love the Neocons
The neocons ought not be taken lightly, especially since they have pilfered something from the arsenal of the left even as they are misusing it. What they have pilfered, simply, is the idea that the world can be changed.
Our white elephant in Iraq
The foreign policy establishment picked a loser; Allawi is a Baathist who lacks appeal or the right vision
