Happenings

May 1-8

"...IRAQI TRADE UNION TOUR A short film screening and discussion...."

May 2, 2008 News Feature

Impeach Bush and Cheney

"...avoiding the moral questions at the heart of our Iraqi occupation. Here's the question I'd like to ask Gen...."

April 9, 2008 Postmarks

The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom

Martin Amis tries breathlessly to evoke the post-9/11 change in the zeitgeist and, less successfully, to find a moral ground from which to respond

"...that plane, the one raining death from above on Iraqi civilians these past five years...."

April 4, 2008 Books Review by Michael Agresta

4,000

After reaching the five year landmark, the US occupation of Iraq reaches a grim new measure

"...from Austin. These numbers do not include fatalities of Iraqi civilians or military personnel (90,000 according to Iraq Body..."

March 24, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Outsider Art

Music on the margins

"...Alvi's remarkable Heavy Metal in Baghdad, which follows the Iraqi band Acrassicauda (Latin for "black scorpion") from the early..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Letters @ 3AM

The archetypes in this Democratic primary are Mama and He Who Can Free the Sword From the Stone

"...to document the horrible cost of that "effort" to Iraqi civilians. Obama emphasizes, "I will not hesitate to use..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Happenings

Feb. 14-21

"...Meeting Resist­ance, which takes a candid look inside the Iraqi insurgency. (See Special Screenings, for screening info.) 3pm. UT..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature

The Theme of the Interconnectivity of Humanity

"...president and his Energy Task Force review maps of Iraqi oil fields. Sept. 11, 2001, gives Bush credibility from..."

Dec. 16, 2007 Postmarks

Page Two: Ego and Conscience

As citizens with the right to vote, we are responsible for what our government does

"...more important than the lives of American soldiers and Iraqi soldiers and citizens, the social safety net, women's right..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Letters @ 3AM

Americans no longer look or sound like, and will never again look or sound like, this country's rigid image of an "American"

"...first people I met when I resettled is an Iraqi who's lived and raised a family here for 20-odd..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Why the U.S. Invaded Iraq

"...Dear Editor, From weapons of mass destruction, liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein, and finally battling the amorphous specter..."

Nov. 27, 2007 Postmarks

Speaking of Presidential Candidates

"...'stream' I have been coming to involves support for Iraqi vets. The ones who, led by our dress-up President..."

Nov. 26, 2007 Promotions Post

Administration Clueless as to the Task at Hand

"...being killed more efficiently in fewer attacks. Either the Iraqi insurgents are getting better at killing us or our..."

Nov. 21, 2007 Postmarks

Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales From the Other Iraq

If you think you know everything about how America is viewed by the people whom our troops are meant to be protecting, there is much in this volume that will surprise you

"...including devoutly conservative Muslims, secular-oriented entrepreneurs, and even an Iraqi pop star (!) – have much invaluable insight to..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Books Review by Ken Lieck

The Capitol Beat on Books

Texas Book Festival Wrap

"...egg," leaving 14 Marines dead as well as an Iraqi civilian translator. He later read aloud in tribute the..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Point Austin: Public Accuracy

Norman Solomon on a life of activism and writing

"...making but instead somehow to be blamed on its Iraqi victims...."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: Immigration by the Numbers

As our focus shifts from Iraq failures, an untenable and disheartening argument arises

"...when other nations chose appeasement over military response. The Iraqi people would welcome us with open arms as liberators..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

Gut-Check Time for Congress; and Betrayal on Trade by Democratic Leaders

"...needless killing and maiming of thousands more Americans and Iraqi civilians. Failure to use that power is not just..."

Oct. 19, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Turkish War on Terror

The Turkish decision to go after terrorists in Iraq could get as bloody as the American decision to do the same thing in 2003.

"...to the PKK. But the PKK is well-liked amongst Iraqi Kurds, and while Turkey remains strategically significant and the..."

Oct. 18, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round

"...in the unnecessary deaths of American troops in the Iraqi theatre of war. In the long term, it could..."

Oct. 16, 2007 Postmarks

Naked City

"...prosecuting it for routine violence and the killing of Iraqi civilians)...."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature

Happenings

Oct. 11-17

"...IRAQI REFUGEE WOMEN IN JORDAN Austin photographer Peggy Kelsey shares..."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature

The Privatized Government

Sen. Hinojosa draws comparisons between private prisons and private wars - and why both are doomed to fail the state.

"...a matter of record that billions of dollars of Iraqi reconstruction cash has been funneled to Haliburton, just as..."

Oct. 10, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

More Crap From Vance

"...especially despicable. He is hopelessly credulous and irrational. The Iraqi campaign is the front in the world war against..."

Sept. 17, 2007 Postmarks

Page Two: Along the Bias

Lack of media objectivity cuts all ways

"...veteran soldier, newly arrived American troops, al Qaeda fighters, Iraqi resistance members, and regular citizens. Within each of these..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Louis Black

@ Chronic

Chronic Explains Iraq, Austin in Three Minutes or Less

"...through teleconferencing with the troops trying to create local Iraqi governments and providing advice on how to set up..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Conspiracies Don't Exist in Black's World

"...conspired to lie to us all about WMD and Iraqi support for terrorism, despite the Downing Street memo. Valerie..."

July 20, 2007 Postmarks

Page Two: Looney Tunes

A swan song for the conspiracy series

"...to justify invading Iraq seems nonsensical. Why have no Iraqi hijackers? If the Bush administration could convince so many..."

July 13, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Happenings

July 5-11

"...better care for returning veterans, and reparations to the Iraqi people. 6pm. 2514-B W. 12th. [email protected], JULY 12..."

July 6, 2007 News Feature

Saddam Tried to Kill Bush's 'Daddy'

"...Did it ever occur to him that maybe the Iraqi people didn't want "democracy" stuffed down their throats? This..."

July 2, 2007 Postmarks

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