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The article linked here features an interview with a Pakistani who recently lost his brother-in-law to a drone attack in North Waziristan.  According to the interviewee, his relative died while participating in an evening congregational prayer.  As a result of … Continue reading →

Dear Reader (Of One, Me, At the Moment): Welcome back, sort of.  I once had a blog called Truthtalkziraq, which I started with Paulette over at Loyola in the heady days of 2003-04, in the wake of the U.S. invasion … Continue reading →

1) Check this link for a document purporting to be demands for US/UK withdrawal from Iraq, representing the position of the resistance — courtesy of the Beirut-based Center for Arab Unity Studies. The document is at the bottom of the … Continue reading →

1) This Seymour Hersch article attracted a lot of attention this weekend, as it’s indicative of a replay from the Bush Administration concerning invasion mobilization. Will Iran in 2006 follow Iraq in 2002-03? This is why the actions of 2002-03 … Continue reading →

Today there is only one topic, the Mearsheimer/Walt report, which has attracted an awful lot of attention since it came out a couple of weeks ago. Here are links to the original report, as well as several reactions to the … Continue reading →

This time I’m mixing Katrina and non-Katrina postings, in what I imagine will be a gradual return to Middle East dominant postings. That said, this weekend is all New Orleans all the time, what with the first Mardi Gras after … Continue reading →