thoughts on the eve of the apocalypse

After mulling things over, I've come to the conclusion that it makes sense to close up shop here. Things have run their course. Thanks t...

Well, I guess I should say something. Blogging is not do-able for me at the current moment, at least not in the way I'd like. I'm le...

War With Iran Might Be Closer Than You Think . ( via )

Tony Karon: Israel is 60, Zionism is Dead, What Now?

I have long found it amusing how the people most likely to denounce Edward Said's thesis in Orientalism routinely confirm that very the...

Greg Mitchell wonders why it took so long for the press to break the Abu Ghraib story. A good question, but still too tame when you conside...

Ok, so it's not the Washington Post and it's only been a year, but I wasn't too far off base .

Check an interview with Dahr Jamail in the Guardian .

A joyous occasion for some. For others, it's been sixty years of dispossession .

Paulville ? Seriously?

Yet another example of destroying a village to save it, so to speak. This time it's Sadr City .

Jim Lobe says that Bush soon will be running into problems funding his beloved "surge" in Iraq.

Gosh , maybe if I start lying more and enabling war crimes I, too, can teach at Georgetown. Or -- even better -- run the World Bank for a st...

I like Miami. I really do. It's such a shame that, using the logic of the GWOT™, we're going to have to bomb the shit out of it , p...

Let's hope Jeremiah Wright doesn't see this . Might make him angrier. African Americans have suffered much higher rates of arrests a...

Frida Berrigan takes apart some myths about the peace movement.

Some interesting thoughts about Bageant's Deer Hunting With Jesus . ( via )

Last week US and Iraqi forces bombed a hospital in Sadr City, inadvertently or not. This week they're storming hospitals, beating and ...

Bill Berkowitz wonders, how will immigration issues play in Election 2008?

A talk by Elizabeth Warren . Also see some related pieces/links: * The Middle Class on the Precipice * What’s Hurting the Middle Class * M...

" It's quite possible that the suicides and psychiatric mortality of this war [GWOT] could trump the combat deaths ."

The WSWS's Naomi Spencer flags a disturbing NYT story about a rash of immigrant deaths in government detention centers.

Follow the fallout from the deadly cyclone in Burma/Myanmar here , here , here , and here .

Stephen Holmes reviews The Shock Doctrine in the LRB . He has somewhat mixed feelings for the book, but generally comes across as more neg...

No , we don't need another Israel lobby . If the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is ever to be "solved" in a judicious manner, i...

Barbarity and terrorism on a scale scarcely seen before.

One of the more ironic aspects of the "success" of the "surge" in Iraq is how driving wedges between warring parties act...

"Is just-in-time nearly out of time?" Could be .