Anarcho_Nick’s Chess, Sex, and More Digest 5
Friends, family, and political comrades,
This week’s digest marks the beginning of a new design that separates the
links more clearly by category. I was pondering simply sending out an email with only a bit of the digest with a link to the blog post of it. I decided
to abandon that idea in case some folks had trouble accessing the web page. The big difference between the web page version and this one is a matter of what I do with HTML and link headings.
Having said that, here’s this week’s digest!
Is Iran the Next Target? And Other Good Readings on War and Peace
Looks like one campaign of mass murder may not have been enough for the Bush administration since rhetoric towards Iran is getting a bit more heated. My deepest advance apologizes to the Iranian people for any suffering caused by military action partly paid for via my money because of theft..oops I mean taxation 
Here are a smattering of links related to the current Iranian debacle.
It Is No Use Blaming Iran for the Insurgency in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn
‘Ambiguous’ Intel on Iran’s Meddling in Iraq
Peace Train: These are Images You Don’t See Every Day
And a link related to the first and still ongoing campaign conducted in the
“war on terror”
I recall first reading this piece around the 9th grade or so and being very
moved by it. Recently, I had a sudden spark to google it when cataloguing
good writing and important news articles for future reference. Hope others
find it a worthwhile read! It’s rather depressing but relays stories worth
keeping in mind when yet another military action is being proposed.
After All That Death and Destruction, It’s Time for a Laugh
The Onion doesn’t always give me a laugh (I tend towards the sensitive side and it pretty much satirizes everything under the sun) but I did get a real kick out of this recent Onion piece called Seriously, Ladies, There Have Been Noise Complaints from everybody’s favorite stripper cop.
And for the Final Act, a Bit of Revisionist History
Kevin Carson explodes the mythology of regulatory statism in the meatpacking industry.
A must read for the progressive skeptical of letting the market run free. No need to embrace either the state or big business. You can say goodbye to both!
Lol, is it as exciting for you to read these lines as it is for me to write them? Just experimenting with digest styles.
Thanks for the link to that article by Patrick Cockburn! I already passed it along.
Matt,
No problem!
Patrick Cockburn is good reading for keeping yourself informed on the Middle East. I hope you spread his article far and wide
I am very concerned about the potential military action against Iran looming. It’s incredibly important to counter the propaganda with the facts.