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I've revised the cartoon a little - made it more explicitly about opposing genocide in Gaza, and erased the star…
conservatives are happy to judge women, queer people, immigrants and the poor based on nothing but conspiracy theories and internet…
conservatives are happy to judge women, queer people, immigrants and the poor based on nothing but conspiracy theories and internet…
We're human. We judge everything on incomplete information. I judge each and every comment I read. I judge people I…
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Category Archives: Iraq
March 18
This weekend is the third anniversary of invasion of Iraq. So I hope you spent at least some of it at an anti-war protest (unless you support the occupation, in which case). The Wellington demonstration was fantastic. The numbers were … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, International issues, Iraq
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Robert Fisk
I went to hear Robert Fisk talk tonight. He was incredible, so articulate, so intelligent, and he talked about the hard bits about the life that he had choosen (and told us not to be sorry for him). I couldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in International issues, Iraq, Palestine & Israel
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"How would he like it if I went round claiming that he gave me his full backing when I sent the tsunami last year?"
I’m a big fan of Steve Bell’s cartoons, have been long before I could understand them (my parents had If cartoon books when I was a kid). But it wasn’t until recently that I realised that the crazy look Tony … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Iraq
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Lies About Lies The ACLU (didn't) Tell
This piece by David Tell in the Weekly Standard has been getting a lot of play in the right blogosphere. The bit the conservatives are focusing on? Tell’s accusation that the ACLU has told terrible lies which the mainstream press … Continue reading
Posted in International issues, Iraq
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Links? We Got Links!
Time for another link farm… Hilzoy on Iraq, Bush, and Failures of Will Partisan republicans will dismiss it as bullshit. But in fifty years, I suspect Hilzoy’s account of George Bush’s Iraq war is going to be pretty much how … Continue reading
The Lancet Study of Iraqi Deaths
This topic has come up in P-A’s UNFPA thread: rather than derail that discussion further, I’ve put up a new post, and transfered comments about the Lancet study from that post to this one. It’s been almost a year since … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq
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Demoted for what? Criticizing Halliburton or "poor performance"? Really, Army?
Interesting little newsbyte here from The New York Times about a top Army official being demoted for “poor performance” and who was also coincidently openly critical of the Halliburton Company’s non-competitive contract in the “rebuilding” of Iraq. A top Army … Continue reading
Posted in Elections and politics, International issues, Iraq
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A Realistic Understanding of the Situation in Iraq
For a change, this and several posts to follow (to be posted over the next few days) won’t directly discuss the situation of women in Iraq (although everything about Iraq relates to Iraqi women, of course). Instead, I wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq
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Missing Links From Here and There
John McGowan, guest-posting at Michael Berube’s blog, is critiquing Martha Nussbaum’s critique of Judith Butler (part one and part two). I think readers who want to know a bit of what Judith Butler’s work is about, but have found Butler’s … Continue reading
This is how we've freed the women of Iraq
I have a lot of open links about women’s rights in Iraq – or, more accurately, about the destruction of women’s rights in Iraq, brokered by the Bush administration. It’s amazing – they’ve actually managed to make Iraq, already a … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq
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@Megalodon: Yes, but god forbid that we judge Charlie Kirk on his extremely lengthy record of public speech on practically…