Ilario Salucci's 'Peoples History of Iraq' focuses almost exclusively on the activities of the Iraq Communist Party (ICP) and is a powerful antidote to the patronizing orientalism many leftists and anti-war activists have towards Iraq.

Through the lens of the ICP, Salucci shatters the illusion that Iraq is a backward, undeveloped society dominated exclusively by a reactionary political Islam without any substantial leftist history. Revealed is a society that grows from a British-installed monarchy with an agrarian economy, through a period of communist resistance, to the monarchy and colonial exploitation that was interwoven with tribal and peasant uprisings, to the labor struggles of an emerging industrial proletariat centered on the oil industry. Read more.

I bet I can guess Israel's reaction next time around when Belzeebub (Hezbollah), Black September or Purple October get to attack.

Interview with Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

News Junkie Scott's Blog (8/25/06)

I'm sure they,(the ' Islamic charity folk'), have been quite impressed that Palestinian-American Mohamed Hadid and British-Israeli Michael Zwebner have been able to use not only Katsav's as well as IFA founder Gal Lusky's name in 'pump and dump' fraud using worthless U.S. penny stock shares but also with Moshe Katsav's willingness to pretend he doesn't notice they also 'drafted' Israeli soldiers and the whole of the Israeli army into their scammy press releases claiming the Israeli army would buy 'UCSY's' or Universal Communications Systems' non-existent 'air-water machines', (sometimes supposedly manufactured in Israel itself or sometimes in Brazil or sometimes in China, etc.,etc.).

A former Army officer describes the realities of Bush League unreality on the topic of the Battle of Baghdad, just admitted yesterday by Ambassador Khalilzad -- but having happened three years ago. Welcome to Orwell 101.

La adhesión de personalidades norteamericanas al llamamiento La soberanía de Cuba debe ser respetada, respaldado hasta ayer por
13 683 firmas en el mundo, revela la consistencia de una elección ética que rechaza la política agresiva e injerencista de la Casa Blanca contra la Isla y el compromiso de estas autoridades con la mafia cubanoamericana del sur de la Florida.

La adhesión de personalidades norteamericanas al llamamiento La soberanía de Cuba debe ser respetada, respaldado hasta ayer por
13 683 firmas en el mundo, revela la consistencia de una elección ética que rechaza la política agresiva e injerencista de la Casa Blanca contra la Isla y el compromiso de estas autoridades con la mafia cubanoamericana del sur de la Florida.

Grandfather Ed Wiley is currently walking from Charleston, WV to Washington DC to raise funds and awareness to build a new school for the kids of Marsh Fork Elementary in their community. The school sits right beside a coal processing plant and 2.8 billion gallon leaking sludge dam. Ed will arrive after in Washington DC at the end of his 40 day trek on September 12 and he invites all to walk with him. Visit www.PenniesOfPromise.org

La enfermedad del presidente cubano Fidel Castro ha disparado la
locuacidad de los sectores anticastristas de Estados Unidos y Europa.
Para quienes aún pensaban que había sentido común y pretensiones
democráticas entre ellos, un vistazo a sus reacciones puede ser
esclarecedor.