Posts Tagged ‘ iraq ’

The Crime Known as War

April 5, 2010
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My good friends and colleagues at wikileaks have released a long anticipated and truly horrifying video obtained unofficially from the US military.  Unofficially is putting it kindly, the US military
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Terrorizing Gay Iraqi’s

September 14, 2009
By bicyclemark
Terrorizing Gay Iraqi’s

My good friend John of Americablog has been in Paris for the last few weeks and sent me a message today. The message contained excerpts from this article in the Guardian which tells about religious ex
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Archeology and Iraq

March 4, 2008
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Archeology and Iraq

Esteemed podcasting colleague who's radio program was greatly scaled down last year, to a simple interview-based podcast, Christopher Lydon, recorded another brilliant conversation last week. His g
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Iraqi Labor

June 25, 2007
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Iraqi Labor

The media conversation about the goings-on in Iraq doesn't get much beyond the religious divisions and political executions. When it does, it certainly doesn't make the front pages. Over the wee
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Congressional Pork Crimes

May 28, 2007
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Congressional Pork Crimes

All the critics are up-in-arms at the shocking development last week, that congress voted to give the GWBush his war money. Obviously they're outraged because the party they were convinced would repr
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Puppet Government

May 13, 2007
By bicyclemark
Puppet Government

Recently I was watching some footage of the IRaqi parliament. An institution that I have to wonder about from the beginning as, to me, it wasn't a truly elected (odd list system) and is basically a s
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Art, Violence, and Other Recommendations

May 4, 2007
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Art, Violence, and Other Recommendations

Art, violence, politics, sometimes they all just hit me in the face in one sitting. And so allow me to share some links with you today to illustrate: First, I was watching a lovely vlog entry on i
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When Most of America are Veterans

March 13, 2007
By bicyclemark
When Most of America are Veterans

I have this memory of my mother, when I was a kid, and its not the clearest of memories, but this is how it sits in my mind: My mom was finishing her masters degree in social work, I must have been
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