Headless

CENTRAL AMERICA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND, WATER. Movements led from below tend to be most effective.  More black than red, these mass expressions are either leaderless or the leadership is irrelevant.  Headless, such trends cannot be decapitated.  Care must be taken to remain so. Symbolic movements are a different matter.

Evolution and Clensing

William S. Lind: The Real Game. Evolution and cleansing.

Juan Cole: Mahdist Cult Almost Defeated Iraqi Army at Najaf; Wave of Bombings, Mortar attacks in Baghdad. Deterioration and desperation.

Real Wackos

Patrick Cockburn: US Soldiers Kill 250 Men from "Apocalyptic Cult." Real wackos.

Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: Lo-Tech GPS Jamming. Cheaply deflected.

US must abandon Iraqi cities or face nightmare scenario, say experts. Anyway you look at it: totally fucked!

Skull of 'hobbit' proves it was a different species, say scientists.

War Everywhere

Juan Cole: Fighters for Shiite Messiah Clash with Najaf Security, 250 Dead; Over 60 Dead in Baghdad, Kirkuk Violence. War everywhere.

Lebanon: Shadow of civil war looms again. Back to the past.

Somali police convoy attacked. Start of a new phase.

Taliban threatens bloody summer. They'll do their best.

Google trends.

Living In A Fantasy Land

Paul Craig Roberts: Why Can't Americans See What's Coming? There're living in a fantasy land.

Inbreeding Is Bad

William S. Lind: His Majesty's Birthday. More proof inbreeding is bad.

Patrick Cockburn: What's Really Going on in Baghdad. The top lives in the clouds.

In Iraq, attacks against civilians, Americans grow. The cost of escalation.

Maybe they have learned something?

Kurdish Iraqi soldiers are deserting to avoid the conflict in Baghdad.  Why the hell wouldn't they?  Who the would want to step into the middle of that disaster?  Maybe they have learned something?

Fuck You!

Bush asks for 'a chance' on Iraq.  Fuck you!  (What else can be said?)

Get Into The Act

Al-Qaeda deputy 'mocks Bush plan.' He ain't the only one. It would appear he's trying to get into the act.

Scores killed in Iraq bloodshed. Bad even for Iraq. Indiscriminate murder is difficult to prevent (especially when involving suicide attacks). What are those morons in the Bush Administration thinking? (We all know it is because they cannot.)

Paul Craig Roberts: Only Impeachment Can Prevent More War. And maybe not even then.

One Thing After Another

The Second Looting of New Orleans. One thing after another.

Leading A Rich Fantasy Life

US general optimistic about Baghdad.  Leading a rich fantasy life.

US suffers heavy losses in Iraq.  Not a day for optimism.

Ex-President.

The Israel Lobby Trips and Tilts. I like Jimmy Carter more as an ex-president.  Also (excerpt):

The trouble with the lobby and the Christian zealots who act as its echo chamber is that they believe their own propaganda about Israel’s equitable social arrangements and immaculate political and legal record in its relations with the Palestinians. Use the word apartheid and they howl with indignation. The shock is about thirty years out of date. Israeli writers have used the word apartheid to describe arrangements in the occupied territories for years. Hundreds of prominent South African Jews issued a statement six years ago making the same link.

One should never believe one's own bullshit.  After a time, one almost always will.  It takes a special kind of megalomaniac to do otherwise.

Unfit

William S. Lind: Variables.  Just how unfit are the Democrats?

Ahmadinejad be damned.  On the way out?

Federal Workers Owe Billions in Unpaid Taxes.  No surprise there.

Another Bad Week

Senators oppose Iraq troop boost. Growing some balls? Don't bet on it.

Juan Cole: 125 Killed, Hundreds Wounded by Bombings,Assassinations; Guerrillas kill 4 US Troops; UN Says 34452 Iraqi Civilians Killed in 06; Resolution Condemning Escalation Introduced in Senate. Another bad week. See also Car bomb hits al-Sadr City market.

A whiff of desperation in the air. More than just a whiff.

A Big Step

Zenpundit: RADICAL GOALS, QUIET METHODS. A big step in any conflict is when the educated elite and the professional classes begin to be involved. Links to Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation).

Bombers rock Baghdad university. Revenge for another Botched Execution?

Israeli, Syrian Representatives Reach Secret Understandings.  In the best interests of both.

Still True

Happy MLK Day.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1967): Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence. Still true.

Gypsy-haters, holocaust-deniers, xenophobes, homophobes, anti-semites: the EU's new political force. Tolerant Europe?

Paul Craig Roberts: Only Impeachment Can Stop Him. He deserves nothing better.

Administration Leaving Out Important Details on Iraq. More lying through omission by brainless scum.

Don't mess with Tucker Carlson's ego. Another slimy twerp.

Bush Is A Lying Scumbag

Paul Craig Roberts: What Bush Really Said. Yes Virginia, Bush is a lying scumbag. He should have been aborted.

Nomads Beware! Beating up the weak makes one weaker.

Breaking Ranks: Troops Call for Iraq Withdrawal. As they should.

The Kurds Enter The Civil War

Attacks claim many lives in Iraq. The Kurds enter the civil war.

View the Bush War Glossary.

Its CrimethInc.

Integer

William S. Lind: Less Than Zero.   Bush is an integer:

No, Incurious George has offered no new strategy, nor new course, nor even a plateau on the downward course of our two lost wars and failed grand strategy. He has chosen instead to escalate failure, speed our decline and expand the scope of our defeat. Headed toward the cliff, his course correction is to stomp on the gas.

Wow. Now that is Stupid.  Bush seems to think creating enemies is a good thing.

Juan Cole: Terror Attack on US Embassy in Athens. Expect more.

Has the stupidity finally gone too far?

Americans reject Bush's troop plan. Has the stupidity finally gone too far? He's managed to alienate both (true) conservatives and Evangelicals. That is an amazing feat.

Reconsidering "Black Politics." Redefinition?

Sistani 'wants militias disarmed.' More fragmentation?

Prefer Politics

The perverse logic of Bush's war.   Both political parties prefer politics over the good of a nation.  The two party system is the one party system x 2.

Heating Up

Taliban vow spring offensive. Heating up in tempo with Iraq?

Baghdad fighting 'kills dozens.'  Again.

Definition: Mercenary.

Out There

Pentagon to Bush: 'Your plan won't work.' When those living in fantasy land say, "Wow, You're really out there," then you are really out there. At this point: stupid or just plain nuts?  It's hard to know for sure.  (I would guess a little bit of both.)

Another cheery headline

War's Toll on Iraqis Put at 22,950 in '06.  Another cheery headline.

A State Restored?

William S. Lind: A State Restored? Wait and see.

Paul Craig Roberts: The Urge to Surge. Sounds nasty.

Inbred?

Bush: More troops needed for failed Iraq war.  What else can you expect from an inbred?

Bush 'to replace top US generals.' Without knowing who they are, you can expect one things: mediocrity.

Download Terrorism: psychology and kinetics.

Rush

More fuel on Iraq's spreading flames. Drawing in sorrounding states, powers and peoples like the rush of air to fire.

Oil Inferno. Burned alive.

Juan Cole: Apocalypse II in Samarra; US Kills 6 at National Dialogue Front Office. More escalation.

Somali fighters flee towards Kenya

Somali fighters flee towards Kenya.

Iron Man, Tin God

Patrick Cockburn: Iron Man, Tin God. More useful dead than alive.

Arab press debates Saddam execution. Bad timing: Eid al-Adha (the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage). See also Hijacking Eid and Hanging Saddam. Those responsible must really be so caught up in their own sectarian world that it makes them stupid.

How To Make A Martyr

Juan Cole: Saddam: The death of a dictator. "Through the bumbling of the U.S.-backed regime, justice becomes revenge, and a despot becomes a martyr." How to make a martyr out of a grade-A asshole. Good job. I suspect it was some lame attempt to overshadow US Iraq death toll 'hits 3,000.'

Happy New Year.