Robert Fisk is on the road promoting his new book, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. Antonia Zerbisias reports that Fisk “doesn’t give a Flying Fisk about Fisking,” and that Fisk had this to say about the media’s coverage of the Iraq War:
Right now, coverage of the war in [...]
Archive for November, 2005
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Today’s L.A. Times had a lengthy story about how the U.S. Military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops. Excerpts:
The articles, written by U.S. military “information operations” troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials [...]
Donald Rumsfeld is playing with words again…
The Pentagon’s long struggle over how to describe the war in Iraq moved to new ground Tuesday as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he wants to retire the term “insurgents” in favor of “enemies of the legitimate Iraqi government.”
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“These people don’t have a legitimate gripe,” he said. “These people [...]
Mark Twain was born on this day in 1835.
In honor of this great American writer, I thought I should post a few quotes.
On Lying a Nation into War:
Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, [...]
I will be on the road over the Thanksgiving holidays, so I may not be able to post much of anything until Sunday or Monday.
I leave you with this piece by William S. Burroughs:
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts. Thanks for a continent to [...]
Here’s a link to a story via Bob Harris’s site that reports Bush’s Presidential Daily Breifing just ten days after 9/11 said there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.
Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in [...]
From The Los Angeles Times:
The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims during the run-up to the war in Iraq.
Five senior officials from Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said [...]
Over at This Modern World, you’ll find a lengthy excerpt of an article from Rolling Stone by James Bamford that goes into great detail about the Bush Administration’s covert propaganda campaign. The article is centered around a story about a former Iraqi civil engineer, Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, who desperately wanted to help the [...]
Dick Cheney spoke again today at the American Enterprise Institute. He toned down his virulent jabs at those who dare not support the war in Iraq, but he did lash out against those who suggest that the Administration wasn’t straight with Congress or the American people about why we had to invade Iraq.
What is [...]
Ever wanted to have editorial control over what appears on those signs outside of churches? Well you can! Visit the Church Sign Generator website to create your very own church signs. Here are two that I thought up today:
Now go create your own. It’s fun!
If you come up with a good [...]
