Monthly Archives: December 2007

The Rule of the VulturesBy Siv O’Neall, Dec 26, 2007, 13:36 A net of lies has been spun over our heads and it’s been glued over the earth like a heavy fog. It makes it impossible to see through it … Continue reading →

The Surge: Illusion and Realityby Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus “Where the dead are ghosts on the fragile abacus used to calculate loss, to estimate tragedy.” – from “Body Count,” by poet Persis Karim The narrative in the media … Continue reading →

Tortured Iraqi Woman’s Book Details Baghdad’s `City of Widows’Interview by Dale Crofts Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — From a Baghdad woman’s despairing comment, Iraqi author Haifa Zangana found an epigraph for the insecurity and erosion of human rights in her country: … Continue reading →

The Secret Library of Hope: 12 Books to Stiffen Your ResolveBy Rebecca Solnit Hope is an orientation, a way of scanning the wall for cracks — or building ladders — rather than staring at its obdurate expanse. It’s a worldview, … Continue reading →

Billy Joel & Cass Dillon: “Christmas In Fallujah”

Sorry for posting another of these, but they’re really both quite good. ‘Twas the Fight After Christmasby Dennis Morrisseau / December 24th, 2007 The nation had been listless, while in the White HouseAll the shredders were shredding, fed by the … Continue reading →

From Last of the Iraqis. AlQaeda inside the American jails in IraqMonday, December 24, 2007 I was so relieved when the Eid passed without dramatic incidents, I was glad that the 50 explosive car attack was just a rumor, thank … Continue reading →

Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a StageBy IAN URBINA ,December 24, 2007 This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it’s also the season of spirited shopdropping. Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves … Continue reading →

The Israel Lobby Revisitedby Stephen Zunes It has been 21 months since John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt published their article “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” in The London Review of Books and four months since their publication of … Continue reading →

Washington’s Phobia of Global Treaties: Why reject pacts to help the disabled or ban land mines?by Karl F. Inderfurth Three quarters of the world’s countries have signed an international agreement to ban antipersonnel landmines. The Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty – … Continue reading →

I Won’t Pay My Taxes If You Won’t Pay Yoursby Nina Rothschild Utne War tax resistance is far from a new idea. But there is a bold initiative brewing that has an elegantly simple new angle: There is safety in … Continue reading →

Unpaid Credit Cards Bedevil AmericansBy RACHEL KONRAD and BOB PORTERFIELD, SAN FRANCISCO (Dec. 23) – Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year … Continue reading →