Who killed Ciara Durkin?
And why? A young lesbian joins the Army National Guard. She is sent to Afghanistan in a desk job working with financial information. While on home leave, she says to …
Merchants of War
We’re Number 1! In 2006, the United States agreed to sell $10.3 billion in weapons to the developing world, or 35.8 percent of these deals worldwide, according to the study. …
War on Terror: misnamed, misguided and mismanaged
There’s nothing like a bad metaphor to really sow misunderstanding and mayhem. When the thing being described is as serious and complicated as the threat from stateless terrorists, the consequences …
Resolution to honor soldiers serving honorably in the failed Republican War in Iraq
Ha ha. Let’s put this baby before the American people, shall we? SRES 325 IS 110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 325 To express the sense of the Senate that …
Move On wordplay
Tristero at Digby’s place looks today at “the problem of modern rhetoric” within the Right/Left political debate, prompted by the supposedly right-wing answer to MoveOn.org. MoveOn’s Eli Parisher makes the …
September 2007 US troops deaths in Iraq
From USA Today As of Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007, at least 3,803 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according …
Iraq's new Saddam
It’s disgusting what these chickenhawks will do just to be able to say they are “winning”. Winning what the fuck, you are not supposed to ask (and so the corporate …
Lane Hudson, right-wing crazymaker, my hero
If the name sounds familiar, it’s because he make a little bit of a ripple last year when he released some emails written by Mark Foley. Now he’s filed an …
Piling on Friedman
Last week, Atrios watched the Charlie Rose interview with the “very serious” “foreign policy expert” Thomas Friedman, and isn’t over it yet — apparently may not be over it for …