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[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Since the US Coalition Provisional Authority essentially stole $9 billion from Iraq to run itself and the country the first year, basically the $9 billion actually spent on reconstruction by the US was little more than a repayment of the money taken (quite illegally under the law of Occupation), and the actual US investment in Iraq is zero. While the American public is being taxed to pay a bill for Iraq mounting toward $1 trillion (and Americans are nowadays staring the tax man in the face), that appears to go mostly to finance continued search and destroy missions that are probably mostly failures as counter insurgency.
[Abuaardvark.typepad.com] Voices of the New Arab Public: Marc Lynch, an associate professor of political science at WilliamsCollege, argues that the advent of the Arab satellite stations, AlJazeera in particular, created a totally new Arab public sphere thatcut across borders and censorship. While the new Arab public is unitedby a sense of common identity and consensus on core issues, such asPalestine, it also offers a platform for radically divergent opinionsand unprecedented, open debate: “The remarkable impact of the new Arabpublic sphere rested upon its bringing previously private politicaldebates into the glaring light of publicity.” (p.
[Cbsnews.com] Why So Little Protest On Iraq?, CBS' Dotty Lynch On Theories On ...: var vid4 = new Video(player); var vidFormat = "wmv|rm|flv"; vid4.videoId = "2236912n"; if(vidFormat != ""){vid4.format = vidFormat;}else{vid4.format = "wmv|rm";} vid4.title = "\'It\'s Not Their Son\'"; vid4.subtitle = "\'It\'s Not Their Son\'"; vid4.caption = "Cynthia Bowers spoke to a mother in the heart of America who is still grieving for the son she lost in Iraq. Connie Foyteck wants her son Kraig to be remembered as more than just another life lost."; vid4.dur = Math.round(124.66); vid4.prop1 = "CBS Evening News"; vid4.imageUrl = "http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2006/12/06/image2236911x.jpg"; vid4.loaded = true; //if (player.cache) player.cache.addVideo(vid4); player.playlist.addVideo(vid4)
[Samueljohnson.com] Really not worth archiving. Really. | Frank Lynch: His photographic interests and mine intersect in manyways, and many of the shots you've seen here came out ofphotohikes we took together, along with Gail Picket andJohn Zwinck.Anyway, here is a really wonderful shot of Pro-Zak's from aQueens ice cream parlor (if I've done the html correctly, youshould be seeing it on the right, approximately, and if Ihaven't, I'm completely confident that you'll sue me or him orBush or Powell, maybe even the USO. But I love how he captured ashop which has deliberately chosen to preserve a different era(you should be thinking the Kinks' "The Kinks Are The VillageGreen Preservation Society" at this point).
[Edocharrette.com] » Iraq - Blog Storm: » Iraq - Blog Storm, As scarce as the truth is, the supply is always greater .Former US prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a deal with publisher .
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