Month: April 2003
“Saddam Did Not Fall Alone” by Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashid from London’s
;Shocked were the people of Cairo, where fundamentalists, nationalists, leftists, and the misguided led marches in which they announced their willingness to volunteer. They led marches in which they volunteered to defend Saddam’s Iraq. But yesterday morning, the [Arab] television stations, including Al-Jazeera, which throughout the war had participated in a campaign to defend Saddam…
“Language of Love” by Matthew Everett from the St. Louis
;It seems silly if you’re not a linguist. We were sending letters back and forth, and the climax of it was that he sent me a package with a plastic bag in it, and inside the plastic bag was a glass vial, sealed, with a katydid inside. He included a long letter in red, blue…
“Case ends against Plastic People: Prosecutors decline to pursue communist-era accusations against u
;They even put a picture of me on television in the ’70s saying that I was a drug addict and that I hadn’t had a job for a long time. But in reality, I have never swallowed any drug apart from an aspirin, and I had a job for 15 years at the National Graphic…
“A Single Alphabet Bridges Children’s Two Cultures” by Corey Kilgannon from
;One photograph showed Mohamed Ferhani, 15, demonstrating the word “salaam,” or peace, by posing in a large hooded sweatshirt and flashing peace signs with his hands, rapper-style. Toward the end of the event, Mohamed sauntered in, wearing the same large sweatshirt, hood up. The sounds of 50 Cent blasted from his earphones. His ethnic pride…
A biography of the unmourned Iraqi General Ali Hassan al-Majid, otherwise known as Chemical Ali, fro
;I will kill them all with chemical weapons. Who is going to say anything? The international community? F*** them, the international community and those who listen to them.
Taigan no kaji is a
Taigan no kaji is a Japanese phrase for “fire on the opposite bank,” meaning, “somebody else’s business.”
Is it a failing of the education system? Lack of critical thinking? Too much Fox news? Or just basic
60 percent of Americans think Saddam Hussein had something to do with the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
The only truly verifiable information
The only truly verifiable information in Baghdad at this moment.