Tsunami a Foretaste of Global Warming The horror of waves caroming across the Indian ocean at 500 miles an hour (the speed of a commercial […]

Suicide Bomber Kills 9, Wounds 39 Outside Home of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim A carbomber detonated his payload Monday morning outside the home in Baghdad of […]

How to Save the Iraqi Elections (Reprint Edition) The following piece appeared in the Detroit News in early December: Sunday, December 5, 2004 Bush policies […]

IraqTheModel On December 12, just before I went off to Japan on a trip, I drew attention to a web log entry by Joseph Mailander […]

Bombings and Assassinations Mar Christmas Day in Iraq Douglas Ireland of the LA Weekly has a fine piece on the problems with the coverage of […]

Study of Arabic in the US Harry Levins of the St. Louis Post Dispatch has an interesting article on the lack of Arabic speakers in […]

Hiding Christmas in Iraq The US Christian Right has been loudly complaining about the alleged exclusion of Christmas from the US public sphere. (There isn’t […]

At Least 30 Killed, Dozens Wounded in Iraq Violence AFP and other wire services report that violence in Iraq on Friday killed at least 30 […]

Radical Militants on Planet al-Qaeda Wanted Bush to Win US Election Georges Malbrunot, one of two French journalists recently released by radical Muslim fundamentalists in […]