Month October 2004

From the NY Times front page We’ve seen the Enemy and they are … who, exactly?. A year and a half after Baghdad fell, the insurgency has yet to develop a full-fledged political wing, or a coherent political program. Well,…

From Kos The NY Times and (I’m shocked, it’s baseball season) the Boston Globe, sure. But the (Suburban Chicago) Daily Herald? There’s also the Daytona Beach News and there will be others. Post them if you’ve got them… a running…

PayPal has blocked the defense funds for imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier from using PayPal under their Offensive Material Policy. PayPal may also, in its discretion and out of respect for the families of murder victims, prohibit the use…

Platoon Defies Orders in Iraq. “A 17-member Army Reserve platoon… is under arrest for refusing a ‘suicide mission’ to deliver fuel,” the troops’ relatives told the Jackson Clarion Ledger. “The platoon could be charged with the willful disobeying of orders,…

Email from Scarlet Pimpernel of Freeway Blogger, who organized nationwide antiwar postering on Wednesday.Hey Bob, for a guy with a pickup truck driving around sticking up signs for two years wondering why he was alone, Wednesday was a great, great…