Mahdi’s Birthday Celebrated by 1 Million Shiites in Iraq; Muqtada promises shadow government Hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million and a half Shiite worshippers crowded […]

Iraqi Hospitals still not Functional US spokesmen keep insisting that Iraq’s over 200 major hospitals are back to functioning normally. This statement is manifestly not […]

US Destroying Orchards of the Uncooperative Patrick Cockburn of the Guardian says that US troops are tearing up orchards belonging to clans that they believe […]

Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson Both far rightwing commentators Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson have been in the news this weekend. Limbaugh, of course, is […]

Veiling and Male Cousins Noted ignoramus Stanley Kurtz, an India anthropologist who wrote his dissertation on a psychoanalytic theory of Hindu mother goddesses and who […]

“Baghdad Most Dangerous City in the World” “We’ve had people Killed on our Front Lawn” David Enders, a recent U-M graduate, has been trying to […]

Lame PR Letters supposedly from US Soldiers Backfire on Bush Administration LEDYARD KING GANNETT NEWS SERVICE The Olympian Online WASHINGTON — Letters from hometown soldiers […]

Baghdad’s Homeless Orphans Justin Alexander, who is in Baghdad on a trip for Jubilee Iraq, discusses a problem I haven’t seen others mention, which is […]

4 Iraqi Policemen Wounded in Baqubah; Attacks in Karbala kill one; Pipeline, employees attacked In Falluja, a guerrilla threw a grenade on a passing U.S. […]