The Ironists attack!
The Revision Thing – a history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies.., as prepared by Sam Smith, also editor of the Progressive Review, but herein presenting only the words of Bush officials and disseminated in the October 2003 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
A fine rhetorical trope. Sad, fey and evil at [...]

Le Monde Diplomatique, tied in with both the Herald-Tribune and the Guardian Weekly, publishes a valuable English language edition here.
They have put up a tribute to Edward Said, and published a very recent reflective piece called “Humanism, the Last Rampart Against Cruelty.”.

Here’s something for anyone who has ever endured bureaucratic “reform”.
“I met the man who was hired to create a new civil government in Baghdad, to bring Baghdad back to order,” said Evans. “His name was Gerald Lawson. I asked him what his background was that allowed him to get this job. He said he was [...]

A man who singlehandedly changed the way we talk about politics, race and the Middle East. After a ten year battle with leukemia..

“Both attempts having failed, the peasant was obliged to refund subsidies he had received; he was also severely beaten.”
One of the more sadly metaphorical notes from the wonderful “Directory of Heavier-than-Air Machines in Western Europe, 850BC – 1783 AD.”
Also: “From the tower of the cathedral, intending to fly to the nearby Saint Matthew’s fields. Crashed [...]

Isabella v. has been blogging since March here. Is she genuinely a fabulously rich fugitive, or just another clever fictioneer writing bad escape pulp? Certainly the whole thing has become an entertaining detective game for infobahn metahunters. Personally I think its a con, but….
Esquire has printed a neat if unthorough first person piece by John [...]

I should start here – at the Project for the New American Century – since it defines the attitude of the current US Presidency, and makes sense of the mess we are in.