Now, Syria

27Oct08

The United States has confirmed that it launched a “special operation” Sunday to strike at a suspected insurgent base accross the border from Iraq inside Syria.  This would be the first confirmed attack inside Syrian territory staged by US troops from Iraq.   The New York Times and other American MSM was slow to report and confirm [...]

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Monday update

23Jun08

The truth on Iraq and oil, in case you missed it
Last week I mentioned a New York Times report that the large American oil companies and British Petroleum were being invited into making lucrative no-bid offers for Iraqi oil rights.  Over the weekend, former Homeland Security minister Tom Ridge pithily summarized the Bush posture on [...]

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First the blood, now the oil

20Jun08

The New York Times reported on a crucial development in the ongoing saga of the occupation of Iraq.  For years protesters against the war have been chanting, “no blood for oil” and were patronisingly told by their local congresspersons, whether Democratic or Republican, that the war was fought for reasons other than for the U.S. [...]

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