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Satire on Karl Rove’s resignation: Rewriting a Wikipedia article on Goebbels through search and replace. (Link in time stamp, below.) Karl Rove, leader of the Republican Party’s propaganda machine, later the official in charge of all Republican Party Propaganda and Bush’s adviser. Homeland official for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda Preceded by None Political party Republican […]

US Military Strikes Embarrass al-Maliki While he is in Tehran The US military took advantage of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s absence from the country to settle some scores with the Mahdi Army in Sadr City (East Baghad), attacking units there and mounting air strikes on them, killing 32 and wounding about a dozen. Local observers […]

Beeman to NYT: Hyping Iran Threat in Times of Diplomacy William O. Beeman of the University of Minnesota shared with IC this letter to the editor of the New York Times: “From: William O. Beeman Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 3:22 PM To: letters@nytimes.com Subject: U.S. Says Bomb Suppled by Iran Kills Troops in Iraq To the […]

Bush v. Zombies A satire on Bush administration fear-mongering. courtesy YouTube.

US Deployment of Mass Terror: Hiroshima Not a shining moment. From YouTube.

Farhi on Afghanistan, Iraq and the Bush Administration’s Incoherent Iran Policy At our Global Affairs group blog, Farideh Farhi explains “Afghanistan, Iraq and the Bush Administration’s Incoherent Iran Policy”. She points out that Bush said on Monday that Iran’s leaders had announced their intention to acquire a nuclear weapon, which is of course the opposite […]

John Edwards on the Pernicious Influence of Lobbyists on US Politics: Yearly Kos Thanks to David Sirota & YouTube. See also Dennis Perrin’s detailed and sometimes dyspeptic account of his Yearly Kos experience at Huffington Post. And Manan Ahmed gives his impressions here; Manan had a slight disagreement with the Obama camp over Pakistan.

Analysis of al-Maliki’s Cabinet Regarding the collapsing al-Maliki government, an informed observer writes: “The analysis of the current composition of the Council of Ministers is now complete. There are 38 Cabinet-level positions, not 40 as sometimes reported in the mainstream press-media. If the AP-reported number of 17 Ministers is correct, the non-participating Ministers would be […]

Bonaparte’s Proclamation on Overthrowing the Ottoman Beys of Egypt Just one day until the book is out!. From the Napoleon’s Egypt Blog today, Bonaparte’s June 1798 proclamation to his troops on the rationale for attacking Ottoman Egypt. Main points: 1. The Ottoman-Egyptian Beys (“Mamluks” or slave-soldiers) were favoring British commerce over French. 2. The beys […]