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Dispatches from the Class War
Via Inside Higher Ed, the Boston Globe reports that the Pentagon opposes increasing GI Bill funding. Why? Because if they gave them full tuition, eligible soldiers might not re-enlist: Now, five years into the Iraq conflict, a movement is gathering...Posted on February 11, 2008 7:40 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 11, 2007
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Baghdad Update: Mosques
Some reliability issues with the Iraqui police who are supposed to be protecting mosques in Baghdad.Posted on June 19, 2007 10:21 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Memorial Day
It's Memorial Day in the US, which is the official public tribute to the dead of our various wars. This is marked with parades, and ceremonies at cemetaries in towns all across the country. When I was a kid, we...Posted on May 28, 2007 7:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Baghdad Update:A Light Crack
As regular readers know, my friend Paul is a journalist based in the Middle East, and spent a year working as a reporter in Baghdad. He finished that a little while ago, but he's back, and has sent another of...Posted on May 17, 2007 8:53 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Matters of Democracy
Public financing, anti-war activism, and other quibbles with last night's talk.Posted on May 4, 2007 8:11 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Questions for Berg/Mandle?
There's going to be a dinner/ discussion event tomorrow night featuring Michael Berg and Joan Mandle, who I gather are anti-war activists of some standing (I'll post some of the biographical information from the announcement below the fold). Anybody have...Posted on May 2, 2007 7:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Actual Terrorist Convicted (Story on Page 43)
Thoreau at Unqualified Offerings points out an honest-to-God terrorist conviction that didn't make a big splash in the news. Guess why: GREENBELT, Maryland - Robert F. Weiler, Jr., age 25, of Forestville, Maryland pleaded guilty today to possessing a pipe...Posted on January 30, 2007 8:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Baghdad Update: That's It For Now
Our Middle East correspondant looks back on a year of reporting from Iraq.Posted on January 3, 2007 9:39 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Certain Principles
Matt Yglesias nails it when talking about faux-outrage over people complaining about the execution of Saddam Hussein: Do these guys not understand the concept of principles? The point of the belief that all people are entitled to fair trials before...Posted on December 30, 2006 11:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Modest Proposal
Over at Inside Higher Ed, Edward Palm gets all Swiftian: The Department of Defense finds itself desperately short of troops with which to sustain what promises to be a long and increasingly unpopular, inconclusive war in Iraq. The Department of...Posted on December 19, 2006 7:29 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Baghdad Update: Bad Cops, Good Cops
Our senior Middle East correspondant on the difficult process of getting the story straight about military action in Iraq.Posted on December 14, 2006 11:28 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Baghdad Update: Too Much TV
Another update from my friend Paul, working as a journalist in Baghdad, this time on an unfortunate collision between the Sci-Fi Channel and reality: ----------------- Today two suicide bombers walked into a police commando recruitment center and blew themselves up,...Posted on November 27, 2006 9:23 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Baghdad Update: Just a Phase
"We had our militia phase, maybe the rest of the Iraq will get over its own."Posted on October 23, 2006 11:13 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Baghdad Update: Media Culpa
How the wire service system got an Iraqi judge fired.Posted on October 5, 2006 10:13 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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