It’s Friday, it’s almost April, and it’s snowing. How weird is that..
The BIG news today is about Don Siegelman. Will he or won’t he be released?
I would suggest two excellent videos on this 5 year anniversary of the Iraq War. The first is found on AlterNet: Noam Chomsky: Why Don’t We Ask What’s Best For the Iraqis? , and on Glenn Greenwald’s blog at Salon: What can and cannot be spoken on television. This second video is an interview by Charlie Rose with Sinan Antoon and Ali Fadhil, an Iraqi professor and journalist, respectively, currently living in the U.S.
The significance of the interview lies as much in what it says about the American occupation of Iraq as it what it illustrates about the American media. In the American media’s discussions of Iraq, when are the perspectives expressed here about our ongoing occupation — views extremely common among Iraqis of all types and grounded in clear, indisputable facts — ever heard by the average American news consumer? The answer is: “virtually never.”
Thom Hartmann writes a really good review of Ha-Joon Chang’s book ‘Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. Its on my stack.. I will never get through all the books I have accumulated now..
I missed this last speech by Barack obama on “Renewing the Economy”, but here it is in its entirety.
If you want to know what is really happening with the meltdown all over Iraq, than you might want to read this article by Juan Cole of Informed Comment. There was an article in the TimesOnline (UK) this morning called “Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides“. But remember, the surge has succeeded… Here is Crooks and Liars “Iraq is Falling Apart“..
After you read these articles, then read this on: Bush: Iraq is returning to normal. Do you suppose he is not getting the memos..?
I read yesterday that 1 in 10 people in this country still believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. It is unbelievably stunning. Who ARE these people?? Carpetbagger Report breaks it down in The Lie The Just Won’t Die.
On Truthout, there’s a good article by Tom Engelhardt called “The Little Administration That Couldn’t Rebuilding the American Economy, Bush-Style“. He lays out all the administration has done to economy and states the obvious:
Ten months is a long, long time when only their hands are near the pilot’s wheel of the ship of state and water’s already seeping through the hull.
Howard Dean says that “Attacks Getting Too Personal“. Ya think?
The cover story of this coming Sunday’s New York Times magazine asks the provocative question: “The End of Republican America?” The photo shows a red inflatable elephant – collapsed and leaking air.
Have a great weekend folks!
And now for the blues…
Ella Fitzgerald – “Georgia on My Mind”
Photo by Portland Ground. Used with permission.
5 Comments
March 28, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Happy freaky Friday nwmuse…Another nice header photo and out standing post full of new’s….Was going to ask Lady Z to put up this very song, glad I read your post before I sent her my Friday pick’s..You are so good…I appreciate all you do…No snow at my house but cold enough…..Blessings
March 28, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I’m thinking that photo was taken on North Williams here in Portland. That mural sure looks familiar. Hmmm. Maybe you were nibbling pastries at Pix?
March 28, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Muse has pointed out to me that the photo is linked from a local photographic website, but it definitely is the corner of Williams & Failing. Go here and use “street view”.
I lived very near there for more than 10 years and always marveled that there were so many great murals (that one is quite new) and that no one EVER tags a mural, not even the dumbest gangbanger.
March 28, 2008 at 2:52 pm
How’s this for National Security?
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSL1758265520080317
March 28, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Good thing I kept some Euros from my last trip. I might eat a few more meals once our currency is worth the same as goat shit.
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