Monthly Archives: December 2006

Fatima has three posts of that title, and we expect her to add more. I hate describing Baghdad as a dying city, but that’s truly the feeling that passes through me as I drive down the streets of this once … Continue reading →

How many gallons of water do you think this is? Or perhaps a more realistic way to ask the question is, “How many inches do you think sea level will rise as all of this ice melts?” At the rate … Continue reading →

Why there’s no meaningful debate about the “troop-surge” The Ethiopian invasion of Somalia occurred because both sides had concluded that the United States supported the idea of a military solution, rather than negotiated power-sharing between the Islamic Courts organization and … Continue reading →

End of Another Year… You know your country is in trouble when: The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI. Abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country. The politicians … Continue reading →

Crisis in Housing Adds to Miseries of Iraq MayhemBy MICHAEL LUOPublished: December 29, 2006 BAGHDAD — Along with its many other desperate problems, Iraq is in the midst of a housing crisis that is worsening by the day. It began … Continue reading →

Bearing in mind that our food supply, coming now from giant megacorporations far away, grown on poor soils, does not have the same nutrient content (see here) as it did when we were growing up, in fact far less, ways … Continue reading →

Reporter returns to Baghdad to find it far different – and worse offBy Hannah AllamMcClatchy Newspapers BAGHDAD, Iraq — The tiny, dusty shops of Kadhemiya are treasure chests filled with agate, turquoise, coral and amber. I used to spend hours … Continue reading →

You Don’t Have Gerald Ford to Kick Around Any More I usually headline the eulogizing posts with “RIP…” and then the name of the person who died, but I’m not doing that for Ex-President Ford. Not because I bear him … Continue reading →

Escalation and Expansion: Bush’s “Great Leap Forward” Into HellChris Floyd The outlines of Bush’s “New Way Forward” or “Great Leap Forward” or “Long Walk Off a Short Pier” in Iraq is now fairly clear. It has three general thrusts: a … Continue reading →

Federal Bureau of Intimidationby Howard Zinn I thought it would be good to talk about the FBI because they talk about us. They don’t like to be talked about. They don’t even like the fact that you’re listening to them … Continue reading →

New World Order – New Fix or New Failure?Mark Lowry Globalization and the new world order are profound failures. They are based on flawed economic logic that ignores need to have no government intervention in free markets controlled by supply … Continue reading →

Probes of Bush policies in worksBy Rick KleinDec 27, 2006, 10:32 WASHINGTON — Massachusetts lawmakers are set to launch a blizzard of investigations in the new Congress, probing issues such as wartime contracting, post-Katrina housing assistance, and the Bush administration’s … Continue reading →