July 2006
| 7/31/06 |
Iraq War: After Operation Lightning posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "I think we are winning. Okay? I think we're definitely winning. I think we... |
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| 7/31/06 |
The bombing halt posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Laura Rozen has been following the Israel-Lebanon war closely at her War and Piece blog, with... |
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| 7/29/06 |
Iraq War: Al Gore on the war posted by bmiller224 (2 comments) Al Gore's recent interview in Rolling Stone had quite a bit to say about the Iraq War: |
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| 7/29/06 |
A Southern Baptist cricitizes Condi-Condi posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Well, kinda sorta. Condi-Condi was the featured speaker at the Southern Baptist Convent... |
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| 7/28/06 |
Iran and Hizbullah posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) The International Crisis Group has put out an informational and analytical paper that also co... |
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| 7/28/06 |
Another strange George Bush press conference posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Excerpt below from President Bush, Tony Blair Hold a Joint News Conference CQ Tran |
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| 7/28/06 |
Trying to follow the Israel-Lebanon War posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Whenever I try to follow a "fast-breaking" story like the Israel-Lebanon War has been since J... |
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| 7/27/06 |
James Bamford on the Iran hawks posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) One of the leading historians of intelligence matters in the US writes on the Franklin spy ca... |
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| 7/27/06 |
Various articles on the Middle East situation posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Here are some of the latest that I've found notable in some way. This is a rather biza... |
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| 7/27/06 |
How Lebanon's Siniora sought Britain's help in May 2006 to disarm Hizbullah posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) This article from Austria's leading weekly news magazine Profil mentions something I have not... |
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| 7/26/06 |
And you thought the Cheney administration was reckless in *Iraq* ... posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Ken Silverstein is reporting for Harper's online that "a well-connected former CIA officer" i... |
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| 7/26/06 |
Joschka Fischer on the Israel-Lebanon War, and SPIEGEL mimics some bad habit of the US "press corps" posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) When I first saw this Spiegel article, I was ready to start harshing on my man Joschka Fis... |
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| 7/26/06 |
Israeli attacks on the UN posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Two to four members of the UN mission to Lebanon have died in Israeli attacks. Kofi Ann... |
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| 7/25/06 |
Questions about the Israeli Defense Force posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Following up with the subject of my previous post, Juan Cole has a comment (Problems with Isr... |
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| 7/25/06 |
Israel-Lebanon War: A legend failing? posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) A large part of Israel's strongly positive image in the United States comes from a perc... |
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| 7/24/06 |
Gary Hart on Bush-league diplomacy in the Middle East posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Gary Hart writes in Diplomatic Failure in the Secret Society Huffington Post 07/23/06: |
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| 7/23/06 |
More articles on the Israel-Lebanon War posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) This article is a reminder of powerful the neocon/Cold-War-relic notion of seeing terrorism a... |
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| 7/23/06 |
Various articles on the Israel-Lebanon War posted by bmiller224 (1 comments) With the war between Israel and Lebanon, there's an awful lot of information suddenly coming ... |
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| 7/22/06 |
Skepticism - in both the hard and soft sciences posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, has been writing a "Skeptic" column for sever... |
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| 7/21/06 |
Israel-Lebanon War: Five Questions posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Juliette Kayyem poses five sets of questions about the Israel-Lebanon War in Silence |
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| 7/21/06 |
Iraq War: Grim prospects posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "I think we are winning. Okay? I think we're definitely winning. I think we... |
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| 7/20/06 |
Israel's dilemma: the air war can't destroy Hizbollah, a land war has major risks posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) From A strategic mistake by Ze'ev Schiff Ha'aretz 07/20/06: |
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| 7/20/06 |
Iraq War: An evaluation by a "stay the course" supporter posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "I think we are winning. Okay? I think we're definitely winning. I think we... |
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| 7/20/06 |
An emerging "elite" consensus on Iran and Hizbollah's recent actions? posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Those little bits about Hizbollah's planning for the capture of Israeli soldiers that I menti... |
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| 7/19/06 |
Air power posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Larry Johnson and Pat Lang have been looking at the issue of the effectiveness of air power t... |
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| 7/19/06 |
William Lind on the Israeli-Lebanese war posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) I came across this via Billmon: The Summer of 1914 Antiwar.com 07/19/06. |
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| 7/19/06 |
A short self-promotion item posted by bmiller224 (1 comments) One of my Blue Voice partners just pointed out that my review of the Tom Brokaw documentary "... |
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| 7/18/06 |
Sometimes a sweater is just a sweater posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) William Arkin was off for a long weekend. And I've been curious to see what his take on... |
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| 7/18/06 |
Israeli preparedness posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) These articles address something that seems to me to be worth paying attention to. It m... |
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| 7/17/06 |
Goals of the Israeli-Lebanese war posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) The public statements by Israeli officials are pointing very much in the direction of a long ... |
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| 7/17/06 |
Idolatry posted by bmiller224 (1 comments) Tom Engelhardt writes about the idolatry of the Cheney-Bush administration in Bush's Faith an... |
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| 7/15/06 |
Old Right isolationism and the Israeli-Lebanese war posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) This column by Justin Raimondo is an excellent example of what's good and bad about Old Right... |
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| 7/15/06 |
India, Pakistan and the 07/11 attack in Mumbai posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Oh, and while Bush rides his bike in Moscow and the Middle East burns, nuclear-armed India is... |
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| 7/15/06 |
Some background on the Israeli-Lebanese war posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has out a 07/1... |
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| 7/15/06 |
Middle East: Death machines are rumbling... posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) I woke up this morning and none of the news was good And death machines were rumbling 'cro... |
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| 7/14/06 |
Stabs in the back, from Yalta to Baghdad posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Via Atrios, this article about the "stab-in-the-back" myth is now available online: |
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| 7/14/06 |
The problems of tolerance (6): The need for tolerance, its limits and its "repressive" form posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "I never thought I'd live to see the day when old-fashioned journalism would be a form of civ... |
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| 7/13/06 |
The problems of tolerance (5): Herbert Marcuse on repressive tolerance posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) This post is on the third and most famous essya in A Critique of Pure Tolerance (1965), Herbe... |
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| 7/13/06 |
Israel, the US and the current crisis posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) In a post that gives a glimpse of some of the practical difficulties and tough policy choices... |
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| 7/13/06 |
Syria's strategy posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Joshua Landis gives his informed opinion on Syria and Hizbullah on the Attack 07/13/06. Hi |
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| 7/13/06 |
Against the "toy soldier model" of the Civil War posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) I've been trying to post this as a comment to this post: Challenging The Toy Soldier Mod |
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| 7/13/06 |
The problems of tolerance (4): Tolerance, social analysis and radical democracy posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) The third and final essay in A Critique of Pure Tolerance (1965) is by far the most fam ous, "R |
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| 7/13/06 |
Natalie Maines (of the Dixie Chicks) posted by bmiller224 (1 comments) The first time I ever heard of the Dixie Chicks, they were featured in a segment on CNN.... |
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| 7/12/06 |
American authoritarianism posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) From John Dean's introduction to his just-published book Conservatives Without Conscien... |
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| 7/12/06 |
This ain't good, either posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) From Israel Launches Offensive Across Lebanon Border by Laura K |
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| 7/12/06 |
Torture in the Bush Gulag: Is it really ending? posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "I wouldn't join the International Criminal Court. It's a body based in The Hague where unacc... |
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| 7/12/06 |
Iraq War: This ain't good posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "I think we are winning. Okay? I think we're definitely winning. I think we... |
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| 7/12/06 |
The problems of tolerance (3): Barrington Moore, Jr., on science and tolerance posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Michael Shermer gives a great brief summary of how the process of science sifts information t... |
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| 7/11/06 |
A prophetess among us posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Of course, she's a little like Cassandra, the prophetess that no one believed. But I w... |
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| 7/11/06 |
The problems of tolerance (2): Robert Paul Wolff on going "Beyond Tolerance" posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Philosopher Robert Paul Wolff's opening essay for A Critique of Pure Tolerance (1965) is call... |
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| 7/11/06 |
Global warming according to Tom Brokaw - and, believe it or not, it's good! posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) The documentary, that is, not global warming! Between melting ice, Hurricane Katrina a... |
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| 7/10/06 |
The problems of tolerance (1): Are there problems with tolerance? posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "Satan's Chambermaid Emerges Again", wrote Steve Soto of The Left |
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| 7/10/06 |
What Second World War analogies would the neocons use to justify this? posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) From U.N. vote on N. Korea resolution delayed by Edith Lederer, Associated Press |
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| 7/9/06 |
Iraq War: War crimes posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "I think we are winning. Okay? I think we're definitely winning. I think we've ... |
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| 7/7/06 |
Frenzy on the Right posted by bmiller224 (3 comments) Several bloggers have been posting some very good stuff the last few days about the spasms of... |
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| 7/7/06 |
Maverick McCain gets some flack from the right posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Some conservative are spreading nasty rumors about that media darling Maverick McCain: |
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| 7/6/06 |
Chuckie Watch 119: Chuckie gits worked up posted by bmiller224 (1 comments) In my last post, I was quoting an inspired description of the stereotypical couch-potato warm... |
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| 7/6/06 |
Andrew Jackson blasphemed (in an otherwise good post) posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) The post is question is: Warriors and Warrior Wannabes Sic Semper Tyra |
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| 7/5/06 |
John Tierney and the Confederacy posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Billmon has been on a roll posting provocative stuff lately. I want to mention this one... |
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| 7/5/06 |
Iraq War: Victory after victory after victory... posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "I think we are winning. Okay? I think we're definitely winning. I think we've ... |
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| 7/5/06 |
Iran War: Is Israel shifting its position on war with Iran? posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) "God may smile on us, but I don't think so." - anonymous Pentagon adviser quoted by |
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| 7/4/06 |
Bush and the Plame leak posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Murray Waas has new information on the Plame leak investigation: Bush Directed Cheney T... |
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| 7/2/06 |
The 2006 Republican campaign: terror, terror, terror posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) Doyle McManus and Peter Wallsten report GOP Aims to Use a War t |
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| 7/1/06 |
Bob McElvaine on why Mad Annie Coulter hates Jesus and opposes Christianity posted by bmiller224 (0 comments) The following column is found at Martin Marty's Sightings Web site. It's accompani |