For some reason, no more entries fit in the woreandpiece blog, so I'll continue here. Peace...


Lookout by Naomi Klein
The Year of the Fake
[from the January 26, 2004 issue of The Nation]
"Don't think and drive."


Faux Pax Americana
The lesson from Iraq is that using fewer troops can win a war, but can't keep the peace.
By Phillip Carter, featured in Washington Monthly, June(!) 2003


The Five Hundred
By William Rivers Pitt | t r u t h o u t | Perspective | Thursday 8 January 2004


Ted Rall...

THE TRIAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
Selected Highlights From a Future Transcript


WEASELS OF CRASS DECEPTION
All Talk No Pay Makes George a Dull Boy

NO FUTURE
Predictions for a Crucial Year

Missing U.S.-Iraq History
With all the hoopla surrounding the capture of Saddam Hussein—“caught like a rat,� read the Chicago Tribune headline—it is time to take a step back and consider the full story of the Saddam Hussein and his long time relationship with the U.S. government, beginning in 1959, when the CIA put Saddam on its covert operations payroll in a plot to assassinate then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
By Robert Parry | In These Times | 12.16.03