Author Archives: RagBlog

From Crushed by Inertia 200666 Happy New Year, everyone. You guys (and ladies) get a load of G.W.’s New Year’s Resolution? (h/t Firedoglake) My thoughts are with the troops as we head into 2007. People always ask me about a … Continue reading →

From Whatever It Is, I’m Against It The Haditha massacre: the norm The WaPo has gotten hold of the investigative report on the Haditha massacre (click on the label at the bottom of this post for my previous posts on … Continue reading →

Tomgram: Dreyfuss on Bush’s Wizard-of-Oz Iraq PlanBy Tom Engelhardt / Robert DreyfussJan 4, 2007, 11:29 Every now and then, you have to take a lesson or two from history. In the case of George Bush’s Iraq, here’s one: No matter … Continue reading →

Aka, the Democrats are dolts, too … Dems, We’re Citizens, Not ConsumersBy Robert ParryJan 6, 2007, 13:32 As the Democrats regain control of Congress for the first time in 12 years, the party leaders still don’t seem to understand the … Continue reading →

The Nuclear ParadoxBy Elson Concepcion PerezJan 5, 2007, 01:39 It is more than a paradox. The United States, the world’s leading military power and the only country to use the atom bomb against humans, is leading the pressure against Iran … Continue reading →

U.S. OR ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN COULD CONTAMINATE MIDDLE EASTInfowars.com | January 5, 2006Sherwood Ross If the U.S. or Israel attack Iranian nuclear power facilities “huge amounts of radioactive material will be lofted into the air to contaminate the people … Continue reading →

Execution-Gate Saddam’s execution, or “execution-gate” as some Iraqi and Arabic media are calling it now, has turned into an international debate. The Iraqi government is being criticized directly and indirectly even by the Bush administration itself! So it seems that … Continue reading →

Popular Assemblies and the Growing Popular Assembly Movementcommentary from Oaxacaby Nancy Davies [1] nmsdavies@yahoo.com4 January 2007 A popular assembly is a self-organized, autonomous, non-hierarchical group of people who come together spontaneously. They come together as gente (people) and metamorphose into … Continue reading →

Peanuts Kill More Americans Than TerroristsIf western governments were really trying win the “war on terror” they wouldn’t give terrorists so much creditPaul Joseph WatsonPrison PlanetFriday, January 5, 2007 The menace of global terrorism has been labeled the greatest threat … Continue reading →

Dear People of Iraq, I am an American, and as an American, I often find it very difficult to take responsibility for my actions. This letter is my effort to take responsibility for some of the things I have done … Continue reading →

From The Daily Kos. Fast Track to Hell on Earth: Iraq and the WTOby greatwhitebuffaloFri Jan 05, 2007 at 03:02:47 AM PST Call me Ishmael. Inspired by a fellow Montanan’s recent diary, “It’s the Contractors, Stupid- A Plan to Get … Continue reading →