-
Never miss what matters.
Subscribe to Malarkynews RSS Feed Categories
Twitter
- Costa Rica: A Woman in Charge? http://is.gd/7PUIW 2010-02-06
- Virginia GOP Mocks Epic Snow Storm As ‘12 Inches Of Global Warming’ http://is.gd/7PODH 2010-02-06
- No room for new vehicles http://is.gd/7POzm 2010-02-06
- House Likely to End Health Insurers' Antitrust Exemption http://is.gd/7PCPo 2010-02-06
- Saturday hate mail-apalooza http://is.gd/7PwZj 2010-02-06
- More updates...
Tag Archives: Iraq
The F Word: Accepting Defeat in Iraq
Everyone is spinning the Iraq mission's so-called end but no one seems willing quite to accept defeat.
Republicans are complaining that the president didn't mention George W. Bush often enough in his speech announcing the end of combat operations. In fact, he did, quite a bit, and in an over-generous way, most sane people agree. As GRITtv commentator Bill Fletcher, Jr. put it Wednesday, "Iraq wasn't a case of a war gone bad with good intentions--it was begun illegally and handled wrong from the start."
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged alexander cockburn, bill fletcher jr., Bush, Commentary, election, f word, glenn beck, labor, movement, Obama, october 2, popular, populist, The F Word, The Nation, United For Peace and Justice, Video, WASHINGTON Leave a comment
Bill Fletcher, Jr: Spinning Victory in Iraq
President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with President Bush, and echoed a refrain that's grown familiar now: move forward, don't look back. But Bill Fletcher, Jr. notes that Iraq wasn't a case of a war gone bad with good intentions--it was begun illegally, and continued over protest.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged beck, bill fletcher jr., Bush, election, glenn beck, interview, labor, movement, Obama, october 2, popular, populist, United For Peace and Justice, Video, WASHINGTON Leave a comment
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Attack on Ahmed Sharif, and New Voters
President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with President Bush, and echoed a refrain that's grown familiar now: move forward, don't look back. But Bill Fletcher, Jr. notes that Iraq wasn't a case of a war gone bad with good intentions--it was begun illegally, and handled wrong from the start.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged 911, beck, Bhairavi Desai, bill fletcher jr., Bush, cab, cabbie, cabby, economy, election, Episodes, f word, food stamps, glenn beck, Islam, islamophobia, jobs, kerry, labor, lee fang, McCain, mid-term, midterms, missouri, movement, muslim, new york taxi workers alliance, Obama, october 2, Ohio, poor, popular, populist, poverty, September 11, taxi, tea partiers, tea party, Terrorism, The F Word, think progress, unemployed, unemployment, United For Peace and Justice, Video, voters, voting, WASHINGTON Leave a comment
Farewell to Iraq, but No Talk of Mission Accomplished
by Rupert Cornwell in WashingtonBarack Obama last night brought down a curtain on the long, costly and inconclusive war in Iraq, but amid near indifference from a country now worried about the economy to the exclusion of virtually all else."It is ...
Think back to 2003… the year the U.S. didn’t invade Iraq
Historians would later record how Secretary of State Colin Powell prevailed in a key Cabinet meeting in early 2003, when he refused to go before the United Nations because he lacked proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
“What if the U.N. inspections have actually worked, Mr. President?” he asked. “It would be a [...]
The Psychology of Torture: Culture and Change
A recent study revealed that physicians with the CIA's Office of Medical Services were more deeply involved in torture than was previously thought--that doctors and psychiatrists actually helped interrogators design "enhanced techniques" that passed the Bush administration's requirements but would keep prisoners alive and without the severe physical injuries that even that regime admitted were torture.
Sonali Kolhatkar, Rethink Afghanistan, and Psychology of Torture
The media face of the war in Afghanistan is a woman's face--one particular mutilated woman, in the case of Time. Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission notes, though, that this is a clear strategy from those who benefit from the war to win over European and American audiences. Meanwhile, Afghan women who oppose occupation, like former GRITtv guest Malalai Joya, are silenced in the media just as they are silenced in Afghan politics.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged afghan women, Afghan Women’s Mission, Afghanistan, aisha, alternative methods, bagram, Brave New Films, Bush, drone, Esther Armah, flood, general petraeus, guantanamo, jirga, malalai joya, media, Obama, Pakistan, patricia davis, Petraeus, physicians for human rights, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychology, Sonali Kolhatkar, steven reisner, Terrorism, theater, Time, torture, Video, war, women Leave a comment
Richard Kim, Public Housing, and Anchor Baby Baiting
"Who needs gay bashing when you have the Ground Zero mosque?" Richard Kim, senior editor at The Nation, asks guest host Esther Armah. In a week when gay and lesbian couples may see obstacles to their right to marry in California fall away, he notes, right-wing media is strangely silent on the issue. Even Glenn Beck is suddenly sounding a libertarian note.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged air force, anchor baby, army, arnold schwarzenegger, atlanta, bill o’reilly, ColorLines, crisis, east bay stand down, east point, economy, Esther Armah, Fatoumata Gassama, food, FOX News, gay, gay marriage, glenn beck, homeless, homes, housing, immigrant, immigration, jerry brown, jetblue, Kai Wright, lesbian, LGBT, lindsey graham, louie gohmert, marines, marriage equality, mitch mcconnell, mortgage, New America Media, ninth circuit, projects, public housing, queer, Recession, Richard Kim, robin templeton, sb 1070, section 8, stephen slater, subprime, Terrorism, The Nation, tony romano, undocumented, vaughn walker, Veterans, Video, war 0 Leave a comment
Steve Earle, Where Should the Birds Fly, and Daryn Strauss