A Pentagon commissioned $400,000 RAND study, Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation, concludes “the ‘force’ brand, which the United States peddled for the first few years of the occupation, was doomed from the start and lost ground to enemies’ competing brands.”
Army, iraq, show of force, brand, identity, [...]

Posted September 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Politics & Controversy. Tags: Army, brand, identity, iraq, military operations, RAND, report, show of force. One Comment.

Report: civilian and military death toll in Iraq is up strongly after US “surge.”
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Posted June 14, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: death toll, iraq, war. Be the first one.

In yet another lesson about how a bad joke in front of one audience can trouble a larger public, MoveOn wants McCain to know bombing Iran is no laughing matter.
Music and bombing, it could be said, really only go well together when joined in criticism.
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Posted April 20, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: barbara ann, bomb bomb bomb, bomb iran, iran, iraq, john mccain, mccain, moveon, parody, senator mccain, stumble, video. 2 Comments.

Mentioned earlier, but worth mentioning again: TrueMajorityACTION’s Take It Back campaign. Among the videos and political graffiti of the moment, don’t miss Freedom, Beat Box Bush, and Hijacking Catastrophe.
And as funny as the Brazillion Joke is, we need a government that doesn’t lie, a government that’s smart, a government that cares for its people, its [...]

Posted November 6, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, election, george bush, george w bush, iraq, katrina, midterm, midterms, politics, progressive issues, take it back, true majority, vote, voting, w, war. Be the first one.

found by lorelei in Copenhagen.

discovered by Kieran’sPhoto’s’ in Cork.
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Posted November 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, election, george bush, george w bush, iraq, midterm, midterms, politics, vote, voting, w, war. 3 Comments.

Karen forwarded mgarthoff’s Freedom, tagged: bush war election midterm iraq katrina on YouTube.
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Posted November 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, election, freedom, george bush, george w bush, iraq, katrina, mgarthoff, midterm, midterms, politics, video, vote, voting, w, war. 2 Comments.

Frank Rich’s New York Times op-ed column today was full of the kind of easy one-liners that repressives conservatives usually like to use against honest people progressives. I got it from my friend Joe, but because The New York Times thinks their content is golden, they won’t let me link you to the full-text. Eh, [...]

Posted April 30, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: 1000 days, bush, dubya, failure, falsehoods, frank rich, george bush, george w, george w bush, iraq, iraq war, lies, op-ed, political expediencies, w, war, war crimes. 3 Comments.

Some time ago I pointed to John Robb’s discussion of the potential for the network to amplify the threat of violence from otherwise un-connected and un-organized individuals. Now Noah Shachtman at DefenseTech is writing about “open source insurgents.”
It used to be that a small group of ideological-driven guerilla leaders would spread information, tactics, training, and [...]

Posted August 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: defensetech, guerillas, ideological, insurgents, iraq, john robb, metcalfe's law, network effects, noah shachtman, open source, open source insurgency, open source violence, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, world connections, world wide web. One Comment.