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The Daily Iraq War Report
More Americans Want to End Iraq War Next YearApril 10, 2008 (Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Two-in-five adults in the United States believe the coalition effort should be over in 2009, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 39 per … Continue reading
Listen to the Sabre Rattle: Iran-Attack Redux
Youth in Tehran (Photo: WorldIsRound) Attacking Iran redux Besides the clear threats contained in Bush’s speech yesterday, Gen. Petraeus testified repeatedly this week before Congress that Iran was supplying weapons to Shiite militias what were being used to kill American … Continue reading
Pat Buchanan on Likelihood of War with Iran
Petraeus Points to War With IranBy Patrick J. Buchanan The neocons may yet get their war on Iran. Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate … Continue reading
Guantanamo Defendant Calls Trial a ‘Sham’
This April 24, 2007 file photo shows a Joint Task Force guard (L) at Camp #1 inside the detainee center at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, as he talks with a detainee who has had his identity … Continue reading
Manning Marable : African American Peacemakers
Dr. Manning Marable.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and the Struggle against Racism, Inequality and Warby Manning Marable [The following was first delivered as a speech at the University of Illinois at Chicago, sponsored by the Great Cities Institute … Continue reading
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Paying to Repair It for Decades to Come
Iraq and the US economy: ills feeding off each otherBy Joseph E. Stiglitz / April 11, 2008 Some say there are two issues in the coming American elections: the Iraq war and the economy. On days when the war seems … Continue reading
Illinois Man Makes It Through Day
Blume summons the strength to brush his teeth.Adam Blume: An amazing story of survival.April 11, 2008 Schaumburg, IL—Despite an overwhelming, seemingly endless barrage of frustrations, area systems analyst Adam Blume made it through the entire day Tuesday, overcoming the odds … Continue reading
Hook ‘Em : UT Laser Makes Brightest Light in the Universe
Erhard Gaul, research associate at the Fusion Research Center, left, speaks beside the Texas Petawatt laser with Dr. Yury Zakharov from the Novosibirsk Institute in Russia and Willie Padilla, professor of physics at Boston College. Photo by Peter Franklin / … Continue reading
George W. Bush Is a War Criminal
White House Authorized War CrimesBy Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg and Ariane de Vogue / April 9, 2008 In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific … Continue reading
Olbermann : Some Telling Commentary on the State of the Military in Iraq
No end in sight on Iraq?By Thorne Dreyer / April 10, 2008 / The Rag Blog Below is video from Keith Olbermann’s Countdown from this evening, April 10, 2008. It features snippets from President Bush’s speech on Iraq with the … Continue reading
Junior’s Reality Is One We Don’t Comprehend
I’m through with masking the truth. It is time to publicise in vivid red, white, and blue the horrible consequences of this illegal, immoral, unconscionable war in the Middle East. When you finally become sick enough of seeing these graphic, … Continue reading
M. Wizard on Documentary Film CHICAGO 10
CHICAGO 10 – OFFICIAL TRAILER Power to the People : Chicago RememberedBy Mariann Wizard / April 10, 2008 / The Rag Blog I took a little time this afternoon and went to see the movie Chicago 10 at the Regal … Continue reading
















