Dark Clouds of Fear: Iran and Israel
The Deputy Defense Secretary of Israel, Ephraim Sneh, gave a chilling interview, published today in the Jerusalem Post. He says that Iran's leadership must be challenged, if not attacked militarily,...
View ArticleLet Us Go In Peace . . . A Prayer For Soonergrunt
The Remembrance Sunday service in my village was held this morning, as it is held every Sunday following Armistice Day every year since the Great War. We gather around the memorial cross - a feature...
View ArticleIran: Why and How Iranians Must Be Attacked - NOT!
Prime Minister Olmert is hinting about strikes on Iran and will meet with President Bush today. Israel still wants the United States to attack Iran, regardless of the interests of the American people...
View ArticleKeep Your Torturing, Extrajudicial Police State At Home, Please
As if it's not bad enough that one of my nations is a lawless, torturing, extrajudicially arresting and detaining without recourse police state, it is now operating on the turf of my other nation....
View ArticleRIP Milton Friedman
The Wall Street Journal has it up that Milton Friedman, montarist promoter of laissez-faire capitalism and Nobel economics laureate, has died at the age of 94.Key events in Milton Friedman's life....
View ArticleBBC: 3 CIA Black Ops at RFK Assassination - Why?
BBC Newsnight tonight showed a film compiled by Shane O'Sullivan which asserts that three CIA agents closely tied to covert operations against Cuba and other Latin American countries were present at...
View ArticlePickens: Peak Oil Is Here and US Needs Oil Alternative
LITTLE ROCK (AFX) - Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens told central Arkansas business leaders Monday that the world has reached peak oil production and the United States, in particular, needs to find...
View ArticleAnd the 2006 BEST BLOG Winner Is - DAILY KOS
We've won! Congratulations again Kos for hosting the BEST BLOG according to the 2006 Weblog Awards.Congratulations Kosmonauts, Kossacks, Kosmopolitans, Kossites and everyone in our Kool Kommunity!We...
View ArticleRiverbend's 'Baghdad Burning' now a drama on BBC Radio 4
Many of you will already be familiar with the writings of Riverbend on her blog Baghdad Burning. In an interesting blend of old media and new media, the BBC has serialised her blog entries as Women's...
View ArticleEllison Offers His Hand to Goode
This is what civility, grace and tolerance look like:Just now on MSNBC, I saw Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) make his way over to introduce himself to Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA), whose back is to the camera....
View ArticleSunday Times: Israel Plans to Nuke Iran
The Sunday Times reports Israel is well advanced in plans to use tactical nuclear bunker-busters to destroy three sites of nuclear research and enrichment in Iran.The US Pentagon has indicated Israel...
View ArticleRamming a Tanker in the Strait of Hormuz
Somehow I always thought it would be other guys who would sink a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz to block the Persian Gulf. I reckoned without the peculiar incompetence of this administration and the...
View ArticleLosing One More Friend In Iraq
This is me, LondonYank, with Massoud Barzani in 2003. (I'm the one with the bow.) I was in Erbil, Kurdistan, northern Iraq. We were treated regally, with amazing hospitality, as is consistent with...
View ArticleI'll Impeach Mine If You Impeach Yours
A letter in the Financial Times today inspired me to see a wonderful way to advance Iranian-American relations and solve the global fear of and animosity toward both countries: joint impeachment...
View ArticleBrush with Greatness?
I'm freaking out about Iran today, but rather than write a diary about it (I did enough hyperventilating last October) I thought I'd post a fun diary and invite some lighthearted sharing with my...
View ArticleAm I Being Played by Pentagon Psy-Ops for Iran Attack?
We were all kinda busy last October trying to retake the House and Senate so maybe it's not surprising that some things slipped past us. One such measure was a new Pentagon media war unit:BBC News:...
View ArticleExceptionalism: anti-semitic or not pro-Jew enough?
I’ve been trying to figure out why the anti-semitic allegations on DailyKos lately have irritated me so much. I want to share my thinking for discussion with the Kommunity. I really, really want this...
View ArticleThe State of Exception
Response to my exceptionalism diary had me checking for a more neutral, philisophic discussion of how exceptionalism leads to lawlessness, abuse and violence against the target group. Italian academic...
View ArticleZawahiri calls Bush alcoholic, liar, gambler and addict
Al Qaeda #2 Zawahiri released a 40 minute video over websites on 22 January:Via ABC News and Raw Story:The latest taped statement from al Qaeda is an unusually personal attack on President Bush, in...
View ArticleGWB about OBL: 'I will screw him in the a**!'
Ha'aretz from a review the new book "Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait" by Uri Dan, Palgrave Macmillan, 320 pages, $18.45 : Speaking of George Bush, with whom Sharon developed a very close...
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