Sort by Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) - 08/10/2008 - YouTube
US claims that the military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. By travelling through the heart of Baghdad its easy to see by enclosing the Sunni and...
Sort by Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) - 08/10/2008
A Guardian journalist returns home to Iraq to find that far from what we hear in the US, the surge has produced nothing approaching normalcy or peace, but rather ghettos seething with violence, with nothing but makeshift walls dividing the increasingly hostile warring factions. “US claims that the military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. [...]
Sort by DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) - 08/07/2008
This four and a half minute video was made by an Iraqi journalist in Baghdad. "Five years of war... and we live like this ?... Tell the world. I want the world to know, to see how we live here." This doesn't look like the part of Baghdad where Lindsey Graham skips in and gets his swell bargains on some cute little rugs; it's the part of Baghdad where Iraqis live... and die. "In my 3 weeks back home...
Sort by The American Street (Free subscription) - 08/06/2008
This is what victory looks like to the family that started the wars on Iraq. It only cost you a little over half a trillion dollars. And more than 4,000 American lives. So far. (h/t to Juan Cole )
Sort by The Impolitic (Free subscription) - 08/10/2008
By Libby Crooks & Liars posts a video series that takes us to the streets in Baghdad where the elite media are unable to go for fear of being shot on sight. A Guardian journalist, who is also a native Iraqi, returns to his home and finds the 'success' of the surge is not what it's cracked up to be. Watch it in full. It's under 15 minutes long in total. Part Two : The Killing Fields. Part Three : The...
Sort by The Reaction (Free subscription) - 08/10/2008
By Libby Spencer Crooks & Liars posts a video series that takes us to the streets in Baghdad where the elite media are unable to go for fear of being shot on sight. A Guardian journalist, who is also a native Iraqi, returns to his home and finds the 'success' of the surge is not what it's cracked up to be. Watch it in full. It's under 15 minutes long in total. Part Two : The Killing Fields. Part Three...
Sort by mnblue - (Free subscription) - 08/05/2008
The longer the United States stays, the worse it gets. Traditional media no longer reports the war in any meaningful way. Baghdad, once a beautiful city, is now a city of walls. A cemetery on the outskirts marks shallow graves only with pieces of junk. 85% of Iraqis want us to leave. Even the Iraqi government wants us to leave. To have courage, is watch and learn the truth. read more
Sort by Main and Central (Free subscription) - 08/07/2008
Today there was a slew of reports that I felt needed to be disseminated further. I couldn't do them justice if I'd confined myself to my typical format of focusing on just one or two topical issues... First off,...
Sort by Las Vegas Gleaner (Free subscription) - 08/12/2008
Karl Rove spokesman John Sidney McCain III hasn't even been officially nominated at the Republican National Convention yet and already he's threatening to start a war with Russia. Of course, young voters may not feel the same passion that McCain...
Sort by One Utah (Free subscription) - 08/07/2008
As any honest person knows, the idea the the surge worked, in any sense of the word as meant be the Pentagon, is a bold-faced lie. h/t Down With Tyranny! This four and a half minute video was made by an Iraqi journalist in Baghdad. “Five years of war… and we live like this'… Tell the world. [...]
Sort by appletree (Free subscription) - 08/05/2008
Skepticism from members of Congress and from those who knew Bruce E. Ivins has placed the F.B.I. under scrutiny. Voting experts say the registration numbers may signal the beginning of a shift that could affect local, state and national politics over several election cycles. Federal and local authorities fear that the Democratic National Convention will become a magnet for militant protest groups....
Sort by Rants From The Rookery (Free subscription) - 08/11/2008
One child at a time.
Sort by Big Brass Blog (Free subscription) - 08/04/2008
By way of the Guardian. You will never see this on American television. It isn't entertainment, it's reality. The reality of living in Baghdad after years of war. First you can't get around. The graves of those who were killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the wrong religion, the wrong whatever. And then there are the children. The true innocents and the ones who are paying the highest...
Sort by And, yes, I DO take it personally (Free subscription) - 08/05/2008
we seem to have forgotten that the term "surge" was a political talking point designed to minimize what was, in fact, an escalation... now, even the liberals and progressives seem content to call it a "surge" and, worse yet, are passively accepting the bush administration characterization of it as a "success"... Baghdad, 5 years on (part 1): City of walls Baghdad, 5 years on (part 2): killing fields...
Sort by Iraq Insider (Free subscription) - 08/06/2008
(H/t panicbean , Matt Duss ) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Sort by Left In Lowell (Free subscription) - 08/05/2008
These three videos by a native Iraqi showcase a much different point of view of Iraq today than the one espoused by Republicans and Senator McCain. Rather than seeing that the surge has worked, he sees walls - walls which now keep monoethnic neighborhoods trapped and segregated. It makes sense that the violence has gone [...]
