On war
I first wrote about this in a post in November, but am recycling this great letter I found in the Nov-Dec issue of Tikkun magazine — the thoughtful commentary by … Continue reading
Students killed in Baghdad university bombing
I’m affected by a lot of news from Iraq, but the news of the bombing outside Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad that killed seventy students, mostly female, and injured more than … Continue reading
Its oil about oil: recent press picks
Its all about OIL, as Ray McGovern pithily notes: “O for oil; I for Israel; and L for Logistics, meaning the military bases deemed by neoconservatives as necessary to protect … Continue reading
War profiteering in Iraq: the private Pentagone contractors
NB. The spelling of PentaGONE is deliberate … Ismael Hossein-Zadeh provides a most important reminder that war is a racket. An academic economist and an Iranian-born Kurd who has been … Continue reading
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