A great man is gone: Cambodian-born photographer and reporter Dith Pran, whose personal story of escaping the enslavement and genocide of 1970s Cambodia under dictator Pol Pot became the film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday of pancreatic cancer.
Dith, 65, is credited with coining the terrible term “killing fields,” according to The Associated Press, whose obituary [...]

WAR SUPPORTERS, OPPONENTS CLASH IN COMMENTS SECTION
The war is won. Terrorists watch American TV. We’re in it for oil. Supporting the troops  means questioning your government. Terrorists gain strength every time you compain about Iraq. This, and much, much more (52 comments, most of them quite thoughtful) in the comments section to our post of [...]

…the war goes on and on and on…
Sometime last week we hit the 5th anniversary of our Glorious Experiment in Iraq. It wasn’t mentioned here, but not because we forgot. We were simply too bitter, too weary, to make any sort of fuss.
On Easter Sunday, we reached a new milestone: 4,000 US [...]

We don’t reprint press releases—kind of makes us redundant—but this one from Bob Koehler of the Cypress Church Patriots Ministry is worth reading, both for the name of the group in the kitchen of a church fundraiser (Knights of the Holy Grill), and for the message a Marine officer delivered at that fundraiser Friday: “We [...]

We’ve been told that yes, Iraq is a mixed bag but we’re finally making some progress. Well guess what.
The war has come up in debates, but in a rather perfunctory way: so far, it’s been anything but the defining issue of the campaign season. I am the millionth person to make this [...]

Tues | Jan 29 We live in a world of uncertainty. The economy is good, then it’s bad. The stock market is down in the morning, up in the afternoon. Iraq? God knows (I mean that.) The next President? Is it the woman? The black guy? The white dude? The other white dude with the [...]

Suicide rates go up 20%, while attempted suicide/self-injury rates jump sixfold

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But you knew that.
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit center for investigative journalism, finds that in the two years after 9/11, the Bush administration made at least 935 false statements to justify military action.

Neocons like to roll their eyes and claim, in exhausted, put-upon voices, that “everyone thought that Iraq had weapons of mass [...]

Turns out that we’re all just as safe as we need to be, Port of Long Beach included…
We found that it wouldn’t require much in the way of planning, money or resources for a single person to wreak havoc at the Port of Long Beach.
But there is nothing to worry about, because according to the [...]

It’s been a week since the Bush Administration declared the surge of troops in Iraq a huge success–civilian and troop deaths down–but the guys at Fox News are, on this Sunday morn, a week later, still boasting (here’s Chris Wallace last Sunday). But when did the Bushies decide that the deaths of Iraq civilians are [...]