Day February 12, 2006

The Iraq insurgency

Global Guerillas covers “networked tribes, infrastructure disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. An open notebook on the first epochal war of the 21st.” This is some of the best writing anywhere on the changing structure of conflict and war,…

First Abramoff/Bush photo published

The photo is of Bush, Abramoff, and Chief Raul Garza of the Kickapoo tribe From Think Progress [The picture] “leaves unanswered questions about how Mr. Abramoff and the tribal leader, whom he was trying to sign as a client, gained…

Abramoff’s ‘charity’ began at home

The LA Times reams Abramoff today, detailing his sleazy “charities”, which were anything but that. There was the time he laundered money through a religious group’s accounts to try to bribe a congressional aide. He diverted funds from a youth…