Recommended Reading

Judging by his cracker-jack piece in this week's Stranger, putting the lie to the Bush Administration's pretexts for its wars, maybe cartoonist Ted Rall ought to quit his day job. (Though, while he's best known as a cartoonist, his bio makes clear that he's long been multi-media antagonist.)

An unflinching, withering attack upon the Bush wars, it's also that rarest of animals: a convincing political thesis that's also engagingly written -- so much so that it seems too short.

As for The Stranger, one can only wonder at its schizophrenic editorial stance. But this more than makes up for its having solicited Christopher Hitchens' childish and ignorant hit piece of a few weeks ago.

Also highly recommended is a somewhat lengthy special edition of Aspects of India's Economy, "Behind the Invasion of Iraq", which excellently lays out not only the strategic underpinnings of the U.S. war drive, but also the history of Western involvement in Iraq (and the Middle East generally).

Posted by Eddie Tews at February 9, 2003 11:01 AM