Author Archives: RagBlog

Iraq and US Foreign Policy: Noam Chomsky interviewed by Peshawa Abdulkhaliq MuhammedKurdistani Nwe Newspaper, December 25, 2006 When we are talking about regime change in Iraq, you believe that the US did this for oil. But at the same as … Continue reading →

OLMERT AND ABBAS AGREE TO TALKS…. ISN’T SOMEONE MISSING FROM THIS PICTURE?Desert PeaceJanuary 21, 2007 Condi feels good about herself. She thinks her trip to the region was a success. She got Abbas and Olmert to agree to talk about … Continue reading →

Guatemala notes / ruling class follies. If you think the ruling class in the US is insidious, they got nothing on rich Guatemalans. The big story here is the recent collapse of 2 major banks, Banco de Café and Banco … Continue reading →

EXPOSING THE ROOTS OF HEALTH DISPARITIESHarvard Public Health Review, January 1, 2007 [Rachel’s introduction: “What intrigues Williams are not just extreme forms of racism, but their subtler, more insidious, day-to-day manifestations. A huge body of research on health disparities has … Continue reading →

THE SOURCE OF HOPELESSNESS: A REVIEW OF ‘AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH’By Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Inc. [Catherine Austin Fitts served as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush Administration; she previously served as Managing … Continue reading →

From Missing Links What America wanted Mubarak to do (but they found him useless) (With apologies to reader anonymous who called attention to this interesting article, this is only a short summary, with a few extracts. The article is by … Continue reading →

From Arab Woman Blues Hush now, little one … I have good news for you. American “consumer sentiment has improved to a 3 years high, propelled by falling gasoline prices and a favorable view of personal finances and economic growth” … Continue reading →

We’re sure someone will soon chronicle all the spectacular terrorist arrests since 11 September 2001 compared with the numbers of convictions. And we bet the list of arrests will be relatively long, while the list of convictions will be so … Continue reading →

Looking for a Gulf of Tonkin-like IncidentPublished on Sunday, January 21, 2007.By Rodrigue Tremblay Obviously, President George W. Bush is busily looking for a Gulf of Tonkin-like incident in order to further escalate the war in Iraq and to start … Continue reading →

FBI details threat from gangs in military: Says members of Illinois biker gangs in IraqJanuary 20, 2007BY FRANK MAIN Crime Reporter Members of the Hells Angels, including an Army lieutenant colonel from Illinois, have served the U.S. military in Iraq. … Continue reading →

It’s just remarkable what can be found on YouTube these days. Here’s what the poster (Steelydan3) wrote about this video: “This is very rare footage of one of the Big Three Fusion bands of the 70s (the others being the … Continue reading →

Tomgram: Adam Hochschild, Over the Top in Iraq It’s been a repetitive phenomenon of these last years — when fears about disaster (or further disaster, or even the farthest reaches of disaster) in Iraq rise, so does the specter of … Continue reading →