The NYT reports today on the violence that permeates middle class Iraq: Three and a half years after the American invasion, the relentless violence that has disfigured much of Iraqi society is hitting young Iraqis in new ways. Young people from five Baghdad neighborhoods say that their lives have shrunk to…
The NewsHour is allegedly a “low-key, evenhanded [newscast], inclusive of all perspectives. FAIR studied NewsHour’s guestlist from October 2005 through March 2006 (six months) To evaluate NewsHour's claim to evenhandedness and commitment to the public interest. Here’s what Extra found: At a time when a large proportion of the U.S. public…
Here's a pretty amazing admission by Limbaugh, published on Crooks and Liars. Limbaugh has been criticizing Jack Murtha for this approach for dealing with Iraq, but now suggests it himself without giving Murtha credit (or an apology).
58 percent of Americans believe Bush administration has deliberately misled the American public about the war in Iraq, according to a new CNN poll. The comments regarding this poll on Think Progress are well worth a visit.
Charles Anderson served in Iraq, but he doesn't want to be thanked. I did nothing in Iraq I consider honorable. I was a scared kid riding into a battle I didn't understand. Our convoys streamed past thousands of starving children and people needing medical attention. Our tanks fired into villages…