2003

Link It seems a report prepared by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies has revealed that the Americans in Iraq think that guerrilla activity will go on up to the day they leave the country. Dr Anthony Cordesman went to Iraq and spoke to – as well as assorted generals and spooks – Paul…

Read More No evidence of weapons production, no evidence of foreign fighters, no idea!

An Anti-Labor Line in the Sand: LA Times “In plants and factories all over Iraq, workers are quickly organizing unions. They want better wages. They want shorter hours (workers at the refinery and elsewhere often work 11- and 13-hour shifts without additional pay). They want safety shoes, goggles, masks and other protective gear. Most of…

Read More We’re enforcing Saddam’s anti-union laws!

There’s a great idea! The US Army has launched an offensive around Baghdad called Operation IRON HAMMER in an effort to nail some of those inconvenient guerrillas. Apparently, this is a “Get Tough” policy involving a “hard line on terrorism” and various other examples of the rhetoric of false strength. What this boils down to…

Read More Iron Hammer: a chocolate fireguard?

Two new blogs have recently started linking to us, neither of which I’d ever seen before. Those are the ReachM High Ranch at , a simpatico and well designed US political blog, and About Pip, an idiosyncratic personal blog by a British expat in Sweden: . Fortunately, it’s nothing at all to do with the…

Read More The Ranter welcomes About Pip and ReachM High

The Service Employees International Union in New York is going to do this: “As part of the anti-Bush campaign, union President Dennis Rivera has recruited 1,000 rank-and-file members and staff to fan out across the country beginning next month to get an early start organizing get-out-the-vote operations in more than a dozen “battleground” states. Those…

Read More On the Dean theme..