Iraq and the Oil Crunch? Update: See Alan Richards’s reply at end Jim Krane of the Associate Press quotes analysts who seem to blame the […]

Petition to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations My readers who teach or have taught in post-secondary education continue kindly to be […]

Kaplan in Slate on Global Americana Many, many thanks to Fred Kaplan for his write-up in Slate of the Global Americana Institute project to translate […]

30 Dead in Baqubah Battles Shiites Seek to Keep Interior A battle between 100 guerrillas and Iraqi army forces in Baqubah (northeast of Baghdad) on […]

Petition to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (I’ve set up a new petition site at https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/875967959 because the first one was […]

31 Killed in Guerrilla Violence Kurdish Situation Angers Turkey AP reports Iraq violence Tues-Weds. There were major car bombings in Baghdad, and some 15 bodies […]

Zarqawi Makes Recruitment Tape Crackdown on Mahdi Army in Najaf Reuters reports 18 deaths during a relatively light day of violence in the Iraqi civil […]

Blogger David versus WSJ Goliath This is day three since John Fund of the Wall Street Journal did a nationally-read hatchet job on me in […]

Nearly 60 Dead, 80 Wounded in Bombings, Assassinations 34,000 Shiites Have Fled Guerrilla violence killed 25 in Iraq on Monday, 10 of them in a […]