Subject: Baghdad

• A Third Anniversary Gift for Iraq

  Who knew that our political and military leaders were such a bunch of ol' sentimental softies? As a gift for the Iraqi people to mark the third invasion of their country, our leaders got them a miniature version of the invasion, Operation Swarmer. The mini-invasion has all feature that made that full-sized original so special. Lots of hardware directed against a virtually nonexistant but relentless overhyped threat? Yes. True motive hidden behind a threadbare pretext? Check. A spoon-fed media wi

  March 18, 2006

• Spreading Democracy... or something

  Regardless of whether or not the Bush administration will succeed in its plan to introduce democracy into Iraq through an armed invasion and years of chaotic violence, it now appears that the administration has succeeded in bringing to Iraq something the country has had very little of since the British were kicked out many long decades ago: white supremacists. As the New York Times reports this morning: "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," the [Southern Poverty Law Center] quoted a D

  July 7, 2006

• Adapting in Iraq

  The last time I checked, the latest Bush administration slogan for its Iraq adventure is "Adapting to Win". This replaced "Stay the Course", which had fallen out of favor with the White House presumably since it might remind people just what "course" events are taking in Iraq. So, is Adapting to Win any better? Well... Agence France-Presse reports on a unique way that the Bush administration is adapting to the conditions its invasion has created in Iraq: The White House revealed what may be

  September 8, 2006

• Staying the Course

  At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.The est

  October 11, 2006

• Coming Attraction

  Jim Gilliam, who we just wrote about, has the trailer up on his site for the next film he produced, Robert Greenwald's Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, which opens in mid-September. Clockwork's insta-review of the trailer: One of the best things going for Greenwald's Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price was the use of personal stories by average folks--Republicans, Democrats and everyone in between--who've been screwed over by the mega-retailer. Based on the three-minute clip, it appears Iraq

  June 13, 2006

• Sister (Up) in Arms

  Seal Beach activist Doug Korthof (see him in the upcoming documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?) sent this along about Iraq's girl blogger "Riverbend": "She offers a ground-level female perspective on Iraq and your Tax dollars at work. Against incredible odds, this literate and intense young Iraqi brings her thoughts to the world...and may bring tears to your eyes," writes Korthof, who adds you can buy her award-winning book here. "You can read her on-line for free, but each book purchased s

  June 19, 2006

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: MTV films Newport Harbor High!

  A patriot act: To celebrate a trip home from Bagdad to Laguna Niguel, Army Cpl. Jon Warren sipped a Corona beer, smiled and bit into a tuna sandwich. Greg Hardesty of the Reg tells us that Warren spent “a frightening eventful first nine months in combat.” He's been injured in three bomb blasts and “his emotional scars are apparent.” Warren joined the army in 2004 and he says on his first day in Iraq someone tried to blow him up during a patrol. The 25-year-old is “very happy to be hom

  July 24, 2007

• Burying the Dead

  July 10, 2003

• Bigger Than Life: Our Exclusive Preview of the Best (and Worst) at the Newport Beach Film Festival

  April 24, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Dr. No,' 'Dr. Strangelove,' 'Suzuka,' More

  April 9, 2009

• DVDish

  A Bitter End

  November 1, 2007

• Bushies Order Takeout

  February 6, 2003

• All Crust, No Pie

  April 3, 2003

• Style Offensive

  Poetic construction makes Iraq in Fragments not just another Iraq war doc
  

  February 1, 2007

• All Do Crazy Things

  Get Out! Nightlife and more: Nov. 23 - Nov. 30

  November 23, 2006

• Dodging Mortar Attacks

  Eileen Padberg

  September 21, 2006

• Live Review

  Effin' Brutal! Slayer at the Long Beach Arena, Saturday, July 22

  July 27, 2006

• Baghdad Diaries

  May 4, 2006

• For What, George?

  March 16, 2006

• Our Annual Salute to Drinking

  March 9, 2006

• Baghdad Boozin'

  March 9, 2006

• Thank God for That Tax Cut!

  September 8, 2005

• Memorial Day 2005

  May 26, 2005

• Killer Fish

  May 19, 2005

• Life Before Wartime

  March 10, 2005

• Heroes and Victims

  March 10, 2005

• Going to Bed With a $300,000 Price on Your Head

  February 24, 2005

• Letters

  November 4, 2004

• Homage to Babylonia

  October 7, 2004

• Burning Bush

  August 5, 2004

• Jailhouse Iraq

  May 13, 2004

• Where Have All the Blowhards Gone?

  November 20, 2003

• Patriots Travel Package

  November 20, 2003

• Peace in Iraq

  July 3, 2003

• Facts and Shivers

  May 15, 2003

• Absurdity Began with Duck Soup

  May 1, 2003

• Gale Force

  May 1, 2003

• Our Man In Baghdad

  April 24, 2003

• Daddy Warbucks

  April 3, 2003

• Keep Your Hans Off My Blix

  April 3, 2003

• Shock and Awe and Shuck and Jaw

  April 3, 2003

• What Are We Doing There?

  April 3, 2003

• Straight Talk From the White House

  April 3, 2003

• For the 52nd State

  March 13, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• Belated thanks for the Xmas candy, Luther of Orange

  February 20, 2003

• Conspiracy Theories

  February 20, 2003

• We Glimpse Krishna!

  July 1, 1999

• [CD Review] Eminem, 'Relapse' (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)

  May 28, 2009

• Let's Send King George to Baghdad

  The Los Angeles Times reported, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune obviously picked up (it's a long story why we're using their link instead of the Times'; just got with it), the story of the U.S. government having so much trouble filling diplomat posts in Iraq (gee, wonder why?) that it may make such service mandatory, which would not only foster morgue-like morale in the Baghdad embassy (gee, wonder why?), but send the signal to the rest of the world that the folks representating the United Stat

  December 20, 2005