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Archives: August 2007
Arguments over Night of the Living Dead in Iraq
A Government Accounting Office report has found that the Iraqi government has not met 13 of 18 benchmarks set by the US Congress. The report was leaked before it could be doctored…The Nation: Corruption the Norm in Iraqi Gov’t USG Reports Al-Maliki has Impeded investigations
The Nation has gotten hold of a secret USG report that says that profound corruption is the norm in the Iraqi government. The intrepid David Corn writes:' according to the working draft…Cheney & Iran: Here We Go Again?
Barnett Rubin relays a message from a well-connected friend in Washington on the Cheney Administration's plans to roll out a military confrontation with Iran in September. He writes at the Global Affairs…Sistani Aides Held by JAM Muqtada freezes Paramilitary for 6 months
Two senior aides to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani--Abdul Mahdi al-Karbala'i and Ahmad al-Safi-- were kidnapped on Tuesday by the Mahdi Army and are still being held as captives, according to the Kuwaiti…Akhavi on Neocolonialism
Khody Akhavi at IPS covers my talk last Friday at the New America Foundation, on my book, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East. He writes:'In Cole's view, the Bush administration's rhetoric of…Shiite Militia Clashes at Karbala Killl 52, Wound 206 Mahdi Army Rampage against SIIC offices in Baghdad
Clashes between rival militias in the Shiite holy city of Karbala left some 52 dead and 206 wounded on Tuesday, according to late reports from Iraqi security officials. About a million Shiite…Bush, Ahmadinejad Trade Barbs Iranian Delegates Arrested, Released by US
First Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran was read to step into the vacuum when the US was forced out of Iraq. He oddly said that Iran's friends, including Saudi Arabia,…Cole in Salon: The War on al-Maliki
My Salon column for Wednesday is now available: "The war against Iraq's prime minister:"Sens. Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin are calling for Nouri al-Maliki's ouster as a way of attacking Bush's Iraq…Rubin: Proposal on Narcotics in Afghanistan
Barnett Rubin has just posted another entry in his brilliant series on counter-narcotics in Afghanistan.Gonzales Gone for Wrong Reasons
The great shame of it all is that Alberto Gonzales was confirmed as Attorney General despite it being widely known that he had played a central role in attempting to authorize the…The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Terrorism
At the Global Affairs group blog, Farideh Farhi tells us how Tehran is reacting to the Bush adminstration's threat to declare sections of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a 'terrorist organization.She argues…War in a Time of Cholera
Violence at Karbala, Baghdad, Falluja dogged the al-Maliki government on Monday, while the significance of the agreements reached by the presidential council on national reconciliation remained in doubt. Unless parliament passes them,…Churchill on When to Throw in the Towel on Iraq
Glenn Greenwald once remarked that "the highest achievement to which one can aspire in the neocon universe it to be compared to Winston Churchill."So Churchill would advocate another surge and toughing it…Williams Guest Op-ed: W. and Graham Greene
John S. Williams writes:"One of the most curious comments in Incurious Boy George's recent speech before the Veterans of Foreign War in Kansas City was his totally uninformed reference to Graham Greene's…Al-Maliki Threatens Journalists Al-Hashemi Plays Hard to Get
Al-Maliki tells off US pols., threatens journalists with libel lawsuits. A hint to Mr. al-Maliki: This kind of shrillness does not look prime ministerial and just hurts your cause. Muzzling criticism in…