Probably the best article I’ve read on the situation in Iraq and it comes from a Canadian publication, Macleans. Free of spin and ideology the author speaks from direct experience outside the protective bubble of US propaganda but also outside of the internal American political debate as well. Iran is seriously engaged in [...]
But what’s really true is that, like Jane Smiley, I too have seen this coming. The behavior of today’s Republican Party is a direct outgrowth of its historical political posturing and policy-making. I think for me that awareness came the day my father, a lifelong Republican and a conservative in the traditional [...]
A few weeks ago 7 soldiers, mostly sergeants, serving in Iraq wrote a scathing Op-Ed for the NYTimes voicing their frustrations with the mission, the failure of leadership and the desperate condition of our military in Iraq. Their voices mostly disappeared into the ether, with little or no mention in the major media, no [...]
Riverbend is alive and well and now in Syria, having successfully escaped the surging hell that was her home city in Baghdad. She’s been offline for about 4 months since announcing that they would be leaving Iraq and her latest entry explains the difficulties they encountered in just getting a ride, let alone getting [...]