Author: gilgamesh

Recent discourse in many threads on dkos and elsewhere has been dominated by a marked tendency to focus exclusively on the US’s deficiences, inadequacies and responsibilities for the many ill and evils of all parts of the...

Update [2005-5-2 0:35:6 by gilgamesh]: I’ve updated this diary because, on further reflection, I realized I was a bit over-hasty in dismissing out of hand the possibility of deliberate assasination. But I was writing in a...

When I first saw the images and read Seymour Hersh’s  now-legendary article describing in horrible and terrifying detail the barbarous practices that some members of the US military were carrying out on Iraqi...

[From the diaries by susanbhu] After the withdrawal of troops from the endless blood-filled quagmire of Iraq and the revolutionary appointment of a cabinet with an equal proportion of men and women in one of the most...

cross-posted at Daily Kos and New European Times The joint US/Italian commision investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Nicola Calipari, the SISMI agent awared a Gold Medal by the Italian governement for saving...