The Washington Post has obtained a draft copy of a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The 69-page draft, titled “Securing, Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq,” is still being reviewed by the Department of Defense. Congress requested the GAO report, an unclassified version of which is due to be released on Tuesday. […]
Center for American Progress has just released a report titled How to Redeploy: Implementing a Responsible Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq. The center’s recommendation for withdrawal over a period of 10 to 12 months is based on consultation with military planners and logistics experts.
I think it’s reasonable to infer that this redeployment plan […]
Rocky’s presentation on impeachment is now online at: Compelling Case for Impeachment
If you haven’t seen it, I also recommend watching how Rocky spanked Bill O’Reilly on his very own Faux News program. Rocky Anderson Spanks Bill O’Reilly.
I think Bill thought he was gonna had up some small mountain-town mayor for an easy kill. Not so […]
The Christian Science Monitor has the story: the British army is withdrawing from Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, this week. A small force left the Provincial Joint Coordination Center (PJCC), site of a British-Iraqi security task force, Saturday. The vacated PJCC was the scene of a four-hour looting frenzy. The last 500 […]
From this week’s schadenfreude files comes the long suppressed news of Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s (Republican, of course) arrest for lewd behavior in an airport bathroom in Minnesota. He entered a guilty plea.
The residents of the blogistan are, unsurprisingly, all over this story. Craig (R - His Own Private Idaho) is yet […]
Spare Me The ‘Ravers’, But Even I Question The ‘Truth’ About 9/11
Published on Saturday, August 25, 2007 by The Independent/UK
by Robert Fisk
Each time I lecture abroad on the Middle East, there is always someone in the audience - just one - whom I call the “raver”.
Soooo?
His - or her - question goes […]
Such a sad, pitiful, little man.
I do my best to follow national news, and I pay some attention to Utah news– especially with regard to public lands and conservation. But when it comes to the city where I actually live, Draper, Utah, I’m what some political gurus call a “low information voter.” It’s more polite than saying some […]
From here:
Lynn Margulis, AB, MS, PhD – Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. Former Chair, National Academy of Science’s Space Science Board Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution. […]
Ever wonder what kind of people still support the illegal occupation of Iraq and why?
Excepting, of course, the obvious shills for the military industrial complex, there remain a few naive folk who think themselves patriots and who can’t seem to figure out they have been lied to, betrayed, and otherwise taken for fools.
Despite the fact […]
Some Washington politicians and media types are going around repeating the Bush administration’s contention that the deployment of more American combat brigades has brought more security to Iraq. The US military command claims, without citing any evidence, that civilian casualties are down.
First McClatchy Newspapers and now the Associated Press decided to fact-check the […]
As Utah anxiously watches modern-day robber baron Robert Murray cry to his mommy over those nasty things Governor Huntsman said about him, punitively lay off our fellow citizens and shutter his death-trap mines, we all need to read Jeff Goodell’s excellent reality check on coal: The future for Utah is not coal but the extraordinary […]
As someone who teaches comprehensive sexuality education, I particularly enjoyed Jane Jimenez’s recent delusional stream of consciousness everything has gone to hell op-ed.
Jimenez (who for reasons that are obvious only to wingnuts) has a national platform from which to speak, blathers that
Abstinence education shines a light on the problems inherent in promoting sex as entertainment without […]
Two connected posts - first Street Prophets We’re All Dhimmis Now which links to Glen Greenwald’s The Islamist’s Are Coming:
Every now and then, it is worth noting that substantial portions of the right-wing political movement in the United States — the Pajamas Media/right-wing-blogosphere/Fox News/Michelle Malkin/Rush-Limbaugh-listener strain — actually believe that Islamists are going to take over […]
In case you missed it at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the best documentary about the occupation of Iraq, “No End in Sight” by Charles Ferguson, is now playing at the Broadway Centre Cinemas in Salt Lake City.
UPDATE: The only thing wrong with this movie is, you shouldn’t have to pay eight bucks to see […]
Bush League War Drums Beating Louder on Iran
By Ray McGovern
t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Friday 24 August 2007
It is as though I’m back as an analyst at the CIA, trying to estimate the chances of an attack […]
Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer and other former Bush administration officials are behind a well-funded group called Freedom’s Watch which is catapulting the propaganda with TV ads. They have been described as a shadow White House communications shop.
Specifically, Freedom’s Watch is spending $15 million to try to make Americans think that the open-ended […]
Utah’s governor says: “The federal mine safety system is broken. Congress needs to take a good look at this to make sure it never happens again.”
Utah’s senior U.S. Senator says: “Richard Stickler is a very competent MSHA official. He has done his best to see that the job is done right.”
Which one sounds closer to […]
The New York Times broke the story this morning about another National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.
Talking Points Memo has more, including the unclassified “key judgments.” Here’s a sample:
[T]he level of overall violence, including attacks on and casualties among civilians, remains high; Iraq’s sectarian groups remain unreconciled; AQI retains the ability to conduct high-profile attacks; […]
“Had I known that this evil mountain, this alive mountain, would do what it did, I would never have sent the miners in here.”
One of my favorite books and movies of all time is Herman Melville’s classic “Moby Dick.” I just watched the recent remake of it with Patrick Stewart who does a great Captain […]
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