As the U.S. prepares to declare "victory" in Iraq, retired West Point instructor, Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff analyzes the entirety of the war. From brutal massacres, to the U.S. instigation of the looting of Iraqi antiquities, to the sleazy pandering of U.S. mainstream media, to the dust of depleted uranium which will be killing for a thousand years, Goff gives us an inside analysis of a war that most of us don't know about. He also documents the abject failure American progressives to make even the slightest bit of difference in anything about this war, or the next one. Read on....

Been reading this piece on Saddam Hussein. Authored by Mark Bowden, it was first published in The Atlantic Monthly. Makes for incredibly compelling reading. But then, what else do you expect from Bowden?

the last month has meant a lot of travelling. which is why i haven't posted. gawd!!!! my blog seems so awfully lonely. awright. i guess i'll start to make amends. and start posting again