The Nether World reports from the London antiwar protest.

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Senator Dianne Feinstein’s response to Bush on Iraq is a near-perfect example of how Beltway Democrats are as complicit in the war as Bush.

“We need the president to urgently exercise the leadership necessary to bring Iraq’s political factions together,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said in the Democratic radio response Saturday. “In no uncertain terms, the president must immediately inform the Iraqi people that they need to get their political house in order.”

What arrogance. The US invaded Iraq based on lies, something Feinstein neither mentions or opposes, yet she imperiously says Iraq must do the bidding of D.C. This is also a remarkably ignorant statement because there’s no authority in Iraq to give the order to, assuming they’d follow it, which they probably wouldn’t. Would you if you were them? The U.S. has given them nothing but misery.

Feinstein said the Iraqis need to be told that they must get a government and key ministries up and running, that they need to quickly secure their streets by ramping up the deployment of a viable police force, and they must reconcile differences between Sunnis and the Shia.

Dianne, Dianne, Dianne. Iraq doesn’t have a functioning government. One thing Iraqis are definitely united about is wanting the U.S. out of their country. Is any of this getting through?

“Iraqis must know that we will exit on our terms, not theirs,” she said.

Again, her arrogance and willful ignorance of the facts speak volumes. Democrats are as much plugged into the unreality of D.C. as Republicans. In their Beltway dreamscape, if their spinmeisters say something is true, then it must be. Reality will not be permitted to intrude.

Here’s the reality. The US will exit Iraq the way it exited Vietnam. Defeated. In fact, it’s already  over, the U.S. has already lost.

Rather than listening to DiFi’s delusions, let’s listen to someone who actually knows what’s going on.

Iraq in a middle of a civil war: Allawi

Iraq is in the middle of civil war, the country’s former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told the BBC on Sunday.

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A few months ago, the poorest and most exploited in France exploded into protest.

Last week, students began protesting a new law that would make it easier for them to be fired from jobs. The protests have now grown way  beyond just the students.

Students joined forces with teachers, workers, retirees, opposition politicians and union leaders in more than 150 cities and towns throughout France on Saturday in the largest nationwide protest against the government’s new labor law for young workers.

Hundreds of thousands, maybe a million are in the streets. Now a major union leader is calling for a general strike.

This could bring down a government.

Libcom, has “english language coverage of the young workers’ revolt in France” including many photos (like the below.)

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More people came in L.A. and S.F. than we expected, there were over 20,000 at both. Interestingly, there was considerably more mainstream media than at past demos. At one point we had photographers onstage from AP, Reuters, the LA Times, and someone else. Plus CNN was there, as well as local TV news plus several media helicopters were in the air. Antiwar sentiment has gone mainstream. We are the majority now.

Let’s keep organizing. The maniacs in the White House will attack Iran if they think they can get away with it. Let’s make sure we stop them.

We are in the ascendant now, Bush is crumbling.

Sky falls in on Bush the outcast

Plagued by Iraq, the President’s own party is abandoning him as his poll ratings plunge.

Three podcasts follow. More photos on my Flickr page.

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