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"I reminded them that war in Iraq is really about peace." -- George W. Bush
"There simply is no justification to engage in violence." -- Scott McClellan

2010 Update



All right. After way much time off-line, here, at long last are the archives from this blog's December '02 - March '06 run. Reading randomly through a few of the posts, don't see too terribly much material that, with the benefit of seven years' (!) hindsight, makes one want to cringe.

Copied below is the blog's original sidebar -- comprised of the "about" statement, and plenty o' links. Probably a bunch of the links are dead now; probably a bunch are still among the living...




The title of this blog was pinched from the 1939 George Orwell essay of the same name. Written on the eve of the second World War, it reads as though it were written to-day. Dack provides a so-funny-it-hurts graphical illustration of the concept. In addition to this weblog, I'm currently maintaining a "War On Terror" Talking Points page as well as two links collections: one regarding the "War on Terror" and activism, the other regarding fallout from the Iraq War. Haven't been updating them lately, but they're perhaps worth a look nonetheless. If interested, you may also visit my homepage, or check out some things I've written in the past, or visit Eat The State!, a newspaper I help work on. My authorised biography, written by Mr. Robert E. Waddell of Everett, Washington, is (if I may say so) a helluva good read. If you need and/or want to get in touch with me, feel free to send an e-mail to any address you care to invent ("bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy", for example) c/o this domain name.

A word about comments. I prefer to let commenters have the last word, and therefore generally refrain from responding to comments. Contrary comments are most welcome -- though those that try to build an argument are much more appreciated than those that engage in ad hominem histrionics.

A word about comment-spam. This blog does utilise the invaluable mt-blacklist utility. However, the comment-spam is becoming so pervasive that several per day do slip through the cracks. It's kind of a pain in the ass to update the blacklist and de-spam more than once or twice a week, so please don't look too unkindly upon when you happen to run across some of it. Much obliged. If your comment gets blocked, let me know, and I'll help you get it posted.

Having been road-blocked by mt-blacklist, the spammers have turned to spamming Movable Type's TrackBack facility. So, all TrackBack functionality has been disabled on this blog. There were only four or five legitimate TrackBacks in the two-plus years of this blog's existence prior to their elimination, so it shouldn't be any great loss.






Links

    News
  • Antiwar.com.
  • Common Dreams News Center.
  • Cursor Media Patrol.
  • Life After The Oil Crash.
  • The War in Context.

    Analysis
  • Anderson Valley Advertiser.
  • Asia Times Online.
  • William Blum.
  • Noam Chomsky.
  • CounterPunch.
  • Robert Fisk.
  • Naomi Klein.
  • MediaLens.
  • Monthly Review.
  • John Pilger.
  • Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
  • Heather Wokusch.
  • World Socialist Web Site.
  • Z Magazine.

    Blogs
  • The Anthropik Network.
  • Baghdad Burning.
  • Bitter Greens Journal.
  • Clusterfuck Nation.
  • Empire Notes.
  • Feral Scholar.
  • Iraq Dispatches.
  • The Oil Drum.
  • TomDispatch.
  • Whiskey Bar.

    By The Numbers
  • Contributions to Global Warming.
  • Drug War Casualty Statistical Graphs.
  • Farm Subsidy Database.
  • Iraq "Coalition" Casualty Count.
  • "Outsourcing The Pentagon".
  • The Social Security Game.
  • Terrorism Knowledge Base.
  • "Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes".

    Recommended Reading
  • "Behind The Invasion of Iraq", by The Research Unit For Political Economy. (Also available in hard copy from Monthly Review.)
  • Blowback, by Chalmers Johnson.
  • The Clash Of Fundamentalisms, by Tariq Ali.
  • Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins.
  • Confronting The Third World, by Gabriel Kolko; and The Limits Of Power, by Gabriel Kolko and Joyce Kolko.
  • Deterring Democracy and Year 501, by Noam Chomsky.
  • Killing Hope, by William Blum.
  • Late Victorian Holocausts, by Mike Davis.
  • On War, by Howard Zinn.
  • The Rise And Fall Of Economic Liberalism, by Frederic Clairmont.
  • "Terrorism: Theirs And Ours" and "Roots of the Gulf Crisis", by Eqbal Ahmad.
  • We Will Not Cease, by Archibald Baxter.
  • The Wretched Of The Earth, by Frantz Fanon.





The Wisdom of George W. Bush

  • "When you see somebody who hurts, put your arm around them and tell them you love them."
  • "Do not let anyone mislead you."
  • "Spending wisely means reducing wasteful spending."
  • "Democracy is unfolding."