Yearly Archives: 2007

Mangling the Mandate: The Democrats’ Fraudulent Iraq Exit PlanBy KEVIN ZEESE The Democrats took the majority of both the House and Senate on January 4th, 2007 since then 192 members of the Armed Services have died as have countless Iraqi … Continue reading →

Since the Democrats clearly failed to hear the message from us over the past year, it is time to tell them they have failed in our trust and must all go. Dems abandon war authority provisionBy DAVID ESPO and MATTHEW … Continue reading →

Iraq: Pulled Out Or Pushed OutRobert DreyfussMarch 09, 2007 Robert Dreyfuss is an Alexandria, Va.-based writer specializing in politics and national security issues. He is the author of Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam , a … Continue reading →

US raids Iraqi oil workers; union calls for solidaritySubmitted by WW4 Report on Tue, 03/13/2007 – 04:50. On March 5, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM), the global union federation for oil workers, issued … Continue reading →

Something is remarkably strange about this matter. Riverbend posted about the incident in her inimitable fashion and in such a way that it seemed doubtless that the rape did occur. Now the Iraqi government has arrested this woman. We would … Continue reading →

Oh, but that must be immoral in your book, too. Well, just take it as the insult it is then. You would have done well to simply keep your trap shut. Top General Calls Homosexuality ‘Immoral’: Gay Advocacy Group Blasts … Continue reading →

Many thanks to Charlie Loving.

“The Bad Gas of Class Oppression”: Political Prisoners in Calderon’s MexicoBy JOHN ROSS, Mexico City This past Christmas, family members of 26 political prisoners taken during brutal repression of militant farmers in San Salvador Atenco just outside Mexico City last … Continue reading →

Confronting the War Machine in the Pacific Northwest: Showdown at Port TacomaBy RON JACOBS When one thinks of militant political action taking place in the United States, their thoughts usually turn to cities like San Francisco, Chicago and New York. … Continue reading →

Discovering the “Disappeared” and Other Detainees: Ghost Prisoners, Shadowy Jails & Secret TrialsBy Col. DAN SMITH There’s a new sheriff in town–and it’s neither the U.S. nor a U.S.-sponsored surrogate “invited” by the U.S. It’s another of those pesky international … Continue reading →

Reprieve for 3 condemned Iraqi womenBy John CatalinottoMar 12, 2007, 02:59 Ed. Note: For background on this story go to:http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_23968.shtml and http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_24008.shtml The top news stories out of Iraq March 5 and 6 showed that the occupation continues to make … Continue reading →

The fall guy in IraqBy Pepe Escobar The Bush administration has perfected the art of fall-guy selection. The more convoluted the plot, the more credible the fall guy must be. As Lewis “Scooter” Libby was the fall guy in Washington, … Continue reading →