Five Years On, Four Decades Later: Blood On Our Hands

[Image from masternewmedia.org] [Continues "The Surge"] As the war effort was going on abroad, another war was being waged at home: the war of information, with the news media at the forefront. Frontline chronicles how the mainstream media was used by the White House to help build its case for war in Iraq. The media,…

Five Years On, Four Decades Later: The Surge

[Image from University of Texas Library] [Continues "Record of a Neocon War"] The President did change the strategy. Belatedly towards the end of his term, perhaps concerned more for his legacy than the war’s consequences for the country (much less for conditions in the “free world,” much less for conditions in the Middle East, much…

Five Years On, Four Decades Later: Record of a Neocon War

Five years after the invasion, Frontline presents a documentary on the war in Iraq. This latest broadcast is an effort to sum up Frontline‘s investigations of the various phases and aspects of the war. Taken together, these reports make up an excellent archive for studying (and remembering) the war. One important thing to remember, of…

Sick and Tired and Down

It’s been over a month since my last post and I apologize for not having had any significant activity of late. As a rule, I intended to come out with at least one post every week, but obviously I’ve been falling short of that for the past quarter or so. It’s just that the latter…