Governing Council backs off from Total Economic Liberalization The Interim Governing Council said Wednesday that Finance Minister Kamil al-Kaylani’s remarks on Monday were merely his […]

Mudarrisi Criticizes Planning for new Constitution Sayyid Hadi al-Mudarrisi, a major cleric of the holy shrine city of Karbala, issued a denunciation Wednesday of the […]

Aqila al-Hashimi “Gravely Ill AP reports that Interim Governing Council member Aqila al-Hashimi, wounded by machine gun fire in an assassination attempt on Saturday, has […]

Bush address to UN Disappointing The US needs three things from the United Nations desperately with regard to Iraq. The first is legitimacy. It needs […]

INC Moves to Take over Iraqi Finances, Economic Policy More on the ambitious “shock treatment” of the Iraqi economy announced Monday. Apparently Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi […]

Petroleum Smuggling The British navy intercepted 7 ships smuggling petroleum out of southern Iraq to the Persian Gulf, according to al-Zaman. Smuggling reduces the country’s […]

FAO Says Millions of Iraqis Suffer Hunger The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) issued a report on Tuesday […]

6,000 US Troops have come home Sick or Wounded Although the number of troops wounded in action in Iraq is still a little less than […]

Ambassador Wilson interview by Josh Marshall, part 2 Talkingpointsmemo has posted the second part of a long interview with Joe Wilson, who served in the […]