Blog Left: Critical Interventions

At an Army School for Officers, Blunt Talk About Iraq

2007-10-14T06:46:00.001-07:00

Top Army Brass are becoming sharply critical of Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/us/14army.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize

2007-10-12T09:39:00.000-07:00

Gore wins it!
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/10/11/gore/
The Man Who Should be President
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2007/10/12/gore_nobel/print.html
Big Year for Gore, he hits the Trifecta
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/us/12cnd-gore.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Iraq�s Worries on Turkish Border Grow

2007-10-11T16:06:00.000-07:00

US Iraq invasion destabilized the whole region
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/world/middleeast/12iraq.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

Can He Save the Planet and Win the Presidency?

2007-10-11T15:11:00.000-07:00

Gore 2008?
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/11/post_133.html#more

Iraqi Shooting Victim, Relatives Sue Blackwater

2007-10-11T15:09:00.000-07:00

Blackwater under attack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101101030_pf.html

Searching for Internet-Age Meaning in Myanmar�s Crackdown

2007-10-03T12:53:00.000-07:00

the Internet as force of democratizataion and resistance
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/world/asia/04info.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
commentary from NYT
"When it comes to the generals who lead Myanmar, there�s no need to ask whether their actions speak louder than words. Hardly any words come from them, or anyone else in their country if they can help it. That is why world leaders, news organizations and pretty much everyone else are all stuck on the outside looking in, wondering what will happen there next.
Foreign journalists applying for visas have mostly been turned down, and the handful of successful ones risk their lives once they reach the country. A Japanese photographer who gained entry on the eve of the crackdown on protestors was killed today, apparently by a Burmese soldier.
The news reached the outside world quickly and chillingly, in the form of two photographs published on a blog run by Ko Htike, an expatriate Burmese citizen living in London. He told BBC News that he has has a network of 10 people feeding him material from different locations inside the country.
�All my people are among the Buddhists, they are walking along with the march,� he said. �And as soon as they get any images or news, they pop into internet cafes and send it to me.�
The government, which controls the only two internet service providers in Myanmar, has blocked access there to his blog.
In earlier times, a crackdown like the one that has been gathering intensity over the last two days might have remained another secret kept by one of the most secretive governments in the world. But the Internet has given protesters and their supporters a way to disseminate their story.
Another leading Web site on Myanmar news, one that relies on university students in the country, is Mizzima News, which most notably posted a photo of protesters visiting Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who has spent much of the past 18 years under house arrest.
Burma Digest has a channel on YouTube with video clips of events from the past few days, although nothing fresh seems to have been uploaded today yet. A California-based news site called the Mandalay Gazette also appears to have a strong network of sources in the country.
For more sites, take a look at the Myanmar channel at Global Voices.
One group has been preparing for this story since 1992, when the government of Norway agreed to allow a Burmese opposition group called the Democratic Voice of Burma use the Norwegian shortwave broadcasting system for an hour a day.
Since then, the D.V.B. has built a satellite channel and a robust Web site of its own, which have been among the more dependable sources of Burma-based reports, including this latest one, adding further casualties to today�s grim death toll, which had stood at 9:
Protestors came under fire on Thamada road, where one university student was shot in the forehead and died on the spot. A monk at the same location was shot in the back and wounded, and a youth was also shot and wounded.
A foreign national is said to have been shot on Sule pagoda road, a block away from Traders Hotel.
There are continued reports of gunfire at
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/searching-for-internet-age-meaning-in-myanmars-crackdown/

Shifting Targets

2007-10-02T17:47:00.000-07:00

Seymour Hersh tells of new Bush plans for Iran attack
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_hersh?printable=true

'The single most effective weapon against our deployed forces'

2007-09-29T12:56:00.001-07:00

IEDs as symbolic of why US has failed in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/29/AR2007092900750_pf.html

Collecting of Details on Travelers Documented

2007-09-22T13:23:00.000-07:00

Orwellian Police State: Nasty Big Brother is Watching and Collecting Data on you!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102347_pf.html

Security Firm Faces Criminal Charges in Iraq

2007-09-22T13:20:00.000-07:00

Blackwater in trouble; this episode shows the lunacy of Rumsfeld-Cheney's great idea to privatize security and other military services, that was a big boon for the corporations that supported the Bush-Cheney Gang but a disastrous failure in general
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/world/middleeast/23blackwater.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says

2007-09-22T12:19:00.001-07:00

Iraq: Unbelievable waste of resources as well as catastrophic failure
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102074_pf.html

On Wikipedia, Debating 2008 Hopefuls' Every Facet

2007-09-17T10:46:00.000-07:00

Big Battle for 2008 presidential election.... on Wikipedia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091601699_pf.html

O.J. Simpson Is Charged In Alleged Robbery

2007-09-17T10:41:00.001-07:00

He's backkk,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091600221_pf.html

U.S. Secret Air War Pulverizes Afghanistan and Iraq

2007-09-17T10:30:00.000-07:00

US technowar is having a big impact on Afghan and Iraqi Civilians
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=13790&sectionID=15
More than 1,000,000 Iraqis murdered since 2003 invasion according to one report
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=13794&sectionID=15
Canadian is also failing to report high level of Afghan civilian deaths caused by Canadian and western forces
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=13793&sectionID=49
In the face of all these horrors, antiwar movement is heating up
http://www.campusantiwar.net/

Security Firm�s License Is Pulled in Iraq and other Iraq Disaster

2007-09-17T10:23:00.000-07:00

more evidence of Iraq fiasco continuing to unravel
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/world/middleeast/17cnd-iraq.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
Bush's hyping of Iraq progress put in question.... by George W. Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_091407J.shtml
Crocker admits US bureaucratic bottleneck on Iraq refugee problem
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091601698_pf.html

Greenspan Is Critical Of Bush in Memoir

2007-09-15T06:04:00.000-07:00

insider critiques of Bush are starting to proliferate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402451_pf.html

What Crocker and Petraeus Didn't Say

2007-09-11T14:20:00.000-07:00

good critique of what was life out of the Bush-Pentagon let's stay in Iraq spectacle
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_091107J.shtml

Bush-Bin Laden Symbiosis Reborn

2007-09-10T12:28:00.000-07:00

Bush and bin Laden are mirror twin opposites and need each other to keep going....
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_091007B.shtml

US surge plan in Iraq 'working' NOT!

2007-09-10T12:26:00.000-07:00

what a fraud, the whole Petraeus thing was prescripted, he, like Colin Powell has totally lost his reputation....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6986461.stm

F.B.I. Data Mining Went Beyond Targets

2007-09-08T10:08:00.000-07:00

not surprisingly, Bush administration surveillance was abused, it will be interesting to see who the targets were, if this ever comes out completely
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/washington/09fbi.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

Petraeus Disappointed At Political State of Iraq

2007-09-08T10:05:00.001-07:00

In a letter to the troops that WashPost got hold of Petaeus admits failure of surge; how will this be played out next week in US media and politics?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090701435_pf.html
Brit media is playing failure angle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2164919,00.html

Switzerland: Europe's heart of darkness?

2007-09-07T10:30:00.001-07:00

racism and extremism are emerging in Europe in places you wouldn't expect it, like Switzerland and Holland....
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2938940.ece

Bush and South Korean Leader in Testy Exchange

2007-09-07T10:28:00.001-07:00

Testy Bush is losing it....
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/world/asia/08korea.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

4-Year Growth in Jobs Ends; Dow Off 200

2007-09-07T09:30:00.000-07:00

Bushonomics is starting to take a heavy toll, will this be the Big Fall?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/business/07cnd-econ.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Report: Surge Hasn't Cut Attacks on Iraqi Civilians

2007-09-06T12:10:00.000-07:00

Bush's phony "surge"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_090507B.shtml