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The killing of Saddam eliminates a very important source of information. The trial over his crimes was merely a theater piece, enough thea...

BillMon: The Rovians now assume they can say anything, any freaking thing at all, and it will still come out the other end of the journali...

Am a big fan of the writings of Billmon, of the top of my head, he uses "Commander Codpiece", "Bible Boy" and "The ...

This is the first article I read from Judt, and it is excellent, from Haaretz : The country that wouldn't grow up By Tony...

Billmon : "So 45% of all Americans would send their children to work for free in a whorehouse. And the rich are even more into the idea...

ZNet |Israel/Palestine | Bad faith and the destruction of Palestine : "But why should we think Israel is acting in good faith, even if ...

MercuryNews.com | 09/21/2006 | State sues U.S. carmakers for warming up the globe : "California filed a lawsuit against the six largest...

Billmon : "Which may be the answer to why Iraq (and, increasingly Afghanistan) have turned into such fiascos, and why this really was i...

Billmon : "Courtesy of the Washington Post (the Orwellian well that never runs dry): Democracy activists who had long sought [Thai ...

US May Ban Sale of Cluster Bombs to Israel : "The unexploded bomblets become anti-personel mines. Mr Guest says MAG has teams working i...

Israel Cluster Bomb Use in Lebanon "Outrageous": UN : "'The outrageous fact is that nearly all of these munitions were fi...

Ted Turner Says Iraq War among History's "Dumbest" : " NEW YORK - The U.S. invasion of Iraq was among the 'dumbest mo...

Royal Society Tells Exxon: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial : "Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company Ex...

Church Targetted by IRS for Anti-War Sermon May Fight Summons : "'This is a problem for the U.S., much of it of its own making,...

ZNet |Iran | U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel : "Privately, several intelligence officials said the committee report ...

ZNet |Israel/Palestine | Dissecting Israel's freeze on visas : "Israel is implementing an undeclared policy of denying foreign nati...

Neo-Con Favourite Declares World War III : "WASHINGTON - Two years before the 2008 presidential election, Newt Gingrich, the former Rep...

Armchair Sleuths Uncover Strange Military Sites in China : "YINCHUAN, China - Tech-savvy armchair sleuths around the world are having a...

Stanley Heller: When Criticism of Cluster Bombs is Anti-Semitic : "The Israeli paper Ha'aretz reports that the head of Germany'...

Whiskey Bar: Forever Blowing Bubbles : "There is no doubt in my mind that the existence -- and seeming indestructibility -- of 'ana...