Category Archives: RagBlog

From Xymphora: If you take the Lancet study numbers and add to it the Afghanistan numbers, and a few more people dead here and there due to the Bush Administration, and remember that Bush is only three quarters done, you … Continue reading →

Iraqi Judge Sentences U.S. Citizen To Death After U.S. Military “Demanded” the Man Be Executed An Iraqi-born US citizen is in a battle to save his life as he tries to avoid execution in Baghdad. But he’s not up against … Continue reading →

This comes from A Star From Mosul, where things haven’t been very nice today. She is a young Iraqi blogger whose life has turned upside down from the military action in that country. Further on in her post, she is … Continue reading →

Date: Saturday, Nov. 4th, 1 -3 pm. Rain date is Sunday, Nov. 5th, 1 pm. Description of Protest: mock, silent, solemn funeral procession (single file) with everyone dressed in funeral black with some women wearing long black veils (we furnish) … Continue reading →

Isn’t there a category of Darwin Award for this? Our thanks to Charlie Loving for the illustration. Lawmaker Wounded in Iraq Wants to Go BackAP PARKVILLE, Mo. (Oct. 17) – A state lawmaker shot in the lung while serving in … Continue reading →

We are in the midst of the second Iranian hostage crisis. This time the Iranians hold 150,000 or so US and UK troops and assorted cohorts hostage in Iraq. They are abetted in this enterprise by the non-reality based US … Continue reading →

‘Beginning of the end of America’Olbermann addresses the Military Commissions Act in a special commentSPECIAL COMMENTBy Keith Olbermann, Anchor, ‘Countdown’ MSNBC We have lived as if in a trance. We have lived as people in fear. And now—our rights and … Continue reading →

… compared to this. I didn’t know they made any drug this strong. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) Says That Being In Baghdad Is ‘Like Being In Manhattan’ On Feb. 9, 2006, House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-NY) spoke at … Continue reading →

What planet does this dumb rat bastard live on? “It is difficult, no question about it, but we’ve now got over 300,000 Iraqis trained and equipped as part of their security forces. They’ve had three national elections with higher turnout … Continue reading →

It was so long that Riverbend was offline that I was truly apprehensive that she’d been killed, arrested, imprisoned, kidnapped … I am grateful, after reading this young Iraqi woman for over three years, that she is alive. Now we … Continue reading →

This is a beautiful tune from Robert Cray, one of our all-time great blues musicians. The video is on a theme we can relate to — please go listen to it here. Here’s a snip from the American Friends Service … Continue reading →