iraq

Remixed: My Photo In TruthOut.Org

I was happy to see one of my photos used as source material for this illustration in TruthOut.Org’s seven year reality check on the Iraq war. » about 100 words

The “Show of Force” Brand

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.”

a three year high

Report: civilian and military death toll in Iraq is up strongly after US “surge.”

MoveOn: We Can’t Afford Bad Song Parodies

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.

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, […] » about 100 words

Political Graffiti

found by lorelei in Copenhagen. discovered by Kieran’sPhoto’s’ in Cork. bush, election, george bush, george w bush, iraq, midterm, midterms, politics, vote, voting, w, war » about 100 words

Freedom (Video)

Karen forwarded mgarthoff‘s Freedom, tagged: bush war election midterm iraq katrina on YouTube.

Frank Rich on Bush’s Last 1000 Days

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, […] » about 400 words

Network Effects on Violence

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, […] » about 300 words

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