TFR

http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/here_bullet.html

Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

If reason cannot move Americans’ minds, then poetry has to.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/01/16/antiwar/

“A real antiwar movement would end our Iraq disaster.”

Gary Kamiya is lucid, as always. His characterization of the Democrats’ response to Bush’s surge expresses just why I am not a Democrat (nor a Republican, for that matter).

http://www.wordyard.com/2007/01/11/cambodia-option/

Bush exercises the Cambodia option in Iraq

Scott Rosenberg has chills go up and down his spine, witnessing America’s Indochina history seemingly repeat itself in Mesopotamia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/opinion/20070111_BUSHSPEECH_GRAPHIC.html

Bush’s Iraq Plan Between the Lines

Extraordinary analysis (in both content and form) by Anthony Cordesman at the NY Times. This is absolutely required reading for today, as it promotes critical thinking of the highest order—the consequences are immediate, dire, and deep.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200701u/troop-surge

The Atlantic

Any comment on contemporary politics and culture by James Fallows is always notable. As usual, he’s convincing; and I have no doubt his analysis will be spot-on again.

http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/26014/index.html

New York Magazine

A brief, but lucidly argued article on “how the middle class is getting screwed.” And meanwhile, the working class reels in desperation, barely able to stay afloat.

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/01/08/fascism/

Salon.com

An interview with Chris Hedges, mapping almost perfectly to what I’ve been feeling/suspecting all this time, about the Christianist right wing in the country.