Yearly Archives: 2007

This is old news, but as Congressional hearings are underway, we thought we’d post it as a reminder that old news is sometimes new news … Playing Monopoly with Iraqi money: The biggest transfer of cash in historyby Loretta Napoleoni … Continue reading →

Court ‘can envisage’ Blair prosecutionBy Gethin Chamberlain, Sunday TelegraphLast Updated: 11:20pm GMT 17/03/2007 Tony Blair faces the prospect of an International Criminal Court investigation for alleged coalition war crimes in Iraq. The court’s chief prosecutor told The Sunday Telegraph that … Continue reading →

Frank Rich: The Ides of March 2003 Tomorrow night is the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s prime-time address declaring the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In the broad sweep of history, four years is a nanosecond, but in America, where … Continue reading →

Symbolic graveyard loses Port Angeles permit, is canceledBy Leah Leach, Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES – Saturday’s peace march was originally expected to include a visit to a symbolic graveyard, with a marker representing each one of the 3,195 U.S. … Continue reading →

Highway checkpoint fallout reaches Rep. DicksBy Randy Trick, Peninsula Daily News FORKS – The first terrorism checkpoint in the Northern Olympic Peninsula has spurred complaints and concerns that are reaching as far as Washington D.C. U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks’ office … Continue reading →

BOB WILLS / SITTIN’ ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Globalization Making the West More IntolerantMartin Jacques, The Guardian LONDON, 18 April 2006 — I have just read Ruth Benedict’s The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. It is a classic. Published in 1947, it analyses the nature of Japanese culture. Almost … Continue reading →

The Shi‘a in the Arab WorldMER 242 — Spring 2007Editorial Twin specters hang over the Middle East of the American imagination — the perceived rise in the geopolitical power of the region’s Shi‘i Muslims and the dark shadow cast by … Continue reading →

We forgot to post these on Thursday and Friday as promised. 3. PNAC/Neocon Crusades – Pin 9/11 on Iraq 4. PNAC/ White House CIA Leak – Story of Joseph Wilson

The Confession BackfiredBy Paul Craig Roberts 03/17/07 “ICH” — The first confession released by the Bush regime’s Military Tribunals–that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed–has discredited the entire process. Writing in Jurist, Northwestern University law professor Anthony D’Amato likens Mohammed’s confession to … Continue reading →

Citizens against additional funding for Iraq war arrested outside the doors of the Appropriations Committee hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives Rayburn Building. Iraq War Protest Turns To Arrests on Capitol Hill