Posts Tagged ‘ iraq ’

The Crime Known as War

April 5, 2010

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 never wanted you to see this video where civilians are targeted and killed over and over.  I could say...

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Terrorizing Gay Iraqi’s

Terrorizing Gay Iraqi’s

September 14, 2009

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 extremists in Iraq who troll gay websites and chat rooms seeking to identify gay...

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Archeology and Iraq

Archeology and Iraq

March 4, 2008

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 guest was born in Mosul, Iraq, a former bodybuilder and respected archeologist, Behnam Abu Al-Souf is a an amazing source of wisdom and truth. ...

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Iraqi Labor

Iraqi Labor

June 25, 2007

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 weekend my Radio Labor Start Podcast feed included a recent episode of building bridges, the labor radio...

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Congressional Pork Crimes

Congressional Pork Crimes

May 28, 2007

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 represent their opposition to the war, did not do what they were elected to do. Yet the disappointment...

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