Category Archives: Iraq

Bush Administration Gives Free Pass To Rapists In Iraq

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Ampersand

The Nation has a detailed article. A woman working for KBR, a private contractor the US hires to operate in Iraq, claims to have been drugged and gang raped by her co-workers, possibly including her boss. The rape was then … Continue reading →

Posted in Iraq, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 10 Comments

20 March 2008

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Maia

The sun was shining as I sat down at the Cenotaph. Like most war memorials it looks like a giant penis. No-one else was there, but I was I knitted a few rows, and the mother of kids I used … Continue reading →

Posted in International issues, Iraq | 11 Comments

McCain is an idiot who doesn't know Sunni from Shiite.

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ampersand

The Iranian government is run by Shiites, and hates Sunnis. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni group, spends most of its time trying to kill as many Shiites as possible. Obviously, these groups are interchangeable, right? AMMAN, Jordan — Sen. John … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections and politics, Iraq | 38 Comments

G'Kar of Obsidian Wings, RIP

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Ampersand

Although I don’t often link to it — its focus is mainstream politics and foreign policy, subjects I don’t often blog about — one of my most frequently read blogs is Obsidian Wings. One of the co-bloggers at Obsidian Wings, … Continue reading →

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Every Faction In Iraq Can Agree On Hating Queers

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Ampersand

From Rozk: All of the religious factions and militias and Kurdish nationalists and government police in Iraq have one thing that they can agree on, which is killing queers. Most weeks, three or four people are hacked, stoned, burned or … Continue reading →

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Once they even believed in the redistribution of wealth…

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Maia

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that George Bush can’t open his mouth without saying something stupid: This has received attention from “Bush is stupid” commenters around the world. But in commenting on George Bush’s inability to communicate even the most … Continue reading →

Posted in International issues, Iraq | 10 Comments

Never before has the phrase "in its own way" been asked to carry so much weight

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Ampersand

From a review of World War IV, the new book defending Bush’s Iraq policy, by Norman Podhoretz: The most astonishing part of “World War IV” is Podhoretz’s incessant use of violent imagery to describe American politics. Critics of the Iraq … Continue reading →

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Who do you want to win?

Posted on July 29, 2007 by Maia

My favourite blog at the moment is Lenin’s Tomb. Lenin has a great breadth of coverage – I’m always marking his posts saying to myself “I should write about strikes in South Africa” and then I never do. So I … Continue reading →

Posted in International issues, Iraq | 26 Comments

Is there a bottom line?

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Maia

I feel almost like an anthropologist exploring unfathomable territory when I read about American electoral politics. No matters how much I read, it doesn’t make any sense to me. ((Not the actions of elected politicians that makes perfect sense, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections and politics, Iraq | 63 Comments

A bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Maia

I try to think how we got here. The theory I developed in college (shared by many I’m sure) is one I have yet to beat: Womb Envy. Biology: women are generally smaller and weaker than men. But they’re also … Continue reading →

Posted in Buffy, Whedon, etc., Feminism, sexism, etc, International issues, Iraq, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 21 Comments