I’m Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
By Matthew Alexander, Washington Post
Update: The author was interviewed extensively on Democracy Now! today.
I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers [...]

Is it change we can believe in, or just the sputterings of overly hopeful tea leaf readers on the cusp of a long overdue administration switch? I think it’s too early to say, but at least people are being more upfront about the situation we find ourselves mired in with regard to the Israeli [...]

Andrew Sullivan posts this little note from Henry Blodget:
Ford, GM, and Chrysler are done for regardless, Obama. Bailing them out yet again won’t fix them. It will just prolong the agony.
Obama is more likely concerned about the 3 million jobs that might be lost if the Big Three auto makers collapse:
The major automakers — G.M., [...]

During this election cycle, many friends of mine who would position themselves well on the left side of our political spectrum, including self-defined anarchists and even communists, told me repeatedly that the political system we have is totally corrupt and not worth investing into. We all know folks who are more interested in pop [...]

While this isn’t exactly a new statement, this is, perhaps, the most direct and blunt Haniyeh has been about Hamas’ developing position.
By Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies
The Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Saturday his government was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
The Hamas leader spoke [...]