Daily Archives: October 12, 2006

Mass Death

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 12, 2006

Stan Goff (Feral Scholar) writes, (h/t to Woods Lot)… Today, the news is full of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study, released by The Lancet, showing that since March 19, 2003, the Bush administration liberation of Iraq has facilitated the liberation of more than 600,000 people from their corporeal existence. Among the [...]

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Guardian quotes Lancet: 650,000 dead in Iraq

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 12, 2006

From The Guardian (October 12, 2006), The death toll in Iraq following the US-led invasion has topped 655,000 – one in 40 of the entire population – according to a major piece of research in one of the world’s leading medical journals. The study, produced by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in [...]

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Pride and Shame

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 12, 2006

How can a country that victimises its greatest living writer also join the EU? TIMES ONLINE (October 14, 2005) By Salman Rushdie THE WORK ROOM of the writer Orhan Pamuk looks out over the Bosphorus, that fabled strip of water which, depending on how you see these things, separates or unites — or, perhaps, separates [...]

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Morford on the money shot…

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 12, 2006

Writing recently about the Foley affair, Mark Morford said… Which is not to say that the prayers of us liberals haven’t already been answered, in spades, well before Mark Foley proved himself to be the perfect icing on the cake of GOP doom, the money shot of poetic justice, the period in this never-ending Republican [...]

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