Category Archives: RagBlog

For God’s Sake, Don’t…!by Dr. Haider Mehdi / March 15th, 2008 The news all over the media is that the US army “is developing a plan to send around 100 trainers to work with a Pakistani para-military force that is … Continue reading →

Lou Reed photo: Jonathan Snyder/Wired1,700 Bands, Rocking as the CD Industry ReelsBy Jon Pareles / New York Times / March 15, 2008 AUSTIN — “I don’t want to feel like I don’t have a future,” sang the Shout Out Louds, … Continue reading →

Napolean’s invasion of Egypt. Front lines. Very romantic.Bush’s romantic notions about serving on the front lines. By Fred Kaplan / Slate / March 14, 2008 If further proof were needed that President Bush resides in a dream world, he settled … Continue reading →

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Remembering What Nixon Learnedby David Sirota A half-century ago, Richard Nixon spearheaded his party’s national congressional campaign in the face of a recession like the one we face today. Then Dwight Eisenhower’s vice president, he decided that as a way … Continue reading →

Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo assures reporters at a Vatican press conference that it is far too late for club soda.Shroud Of Turin Accidentally Washed With Red ShirtThe Onion / March 10, 2008 VATICAN CITY—The Shroud of Turin, an ancient linen cloth … Continue reading →

The Cult of the Suicide BomberBy Robert Fisk 14/03/08 “The Independent” — – Khaled looked at me with a broad smile. He was almost laughing. At one point, when I told him that he should abandon all thoughts of being … Continue reading →

Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan 2008 The horrible, honest reality of the American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan like you haven’t heard it before. Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan., features testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving … Continue reading →

FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters: 2003-06 Audit Cites Probes of CitizensBy Dan Eggen, Washington Post Staff Writer 14/03/08 ” Washington Post” — — The FBI has increasingly used administrative orders to obtain the personal records of U.S. citizens rather … Continue reading →

The First Sixth-Anniversary-of-the-Iraq-War ArticleBy Tom Engelhardt, posted March 13, 2008 09:51 am Please don’t write in with a correction. I know just as well as you do that we’re approaching the fifth, not the sixth, anniversary of the moment when, … Continue reading →

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