Hey --
The edition shaped up much better than we thought.
We thank everyone who helped with this edition. The credits for it are Dallas and the following:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of
Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of
Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of
The Common Ills and
The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of
Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of
Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of
Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of
Like Maria Said Paz),
Ruth of
Ruth's Report,
Wally of
The Daily Jot,
Trina of
Trina's Kitchen,Marcia of
SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of
Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of
The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of
Ann's Mega Dub.
What did we come up with?
- This one is Bob Somerby.
As is this one. We felt this was a one-two punch from Somerby and had to be noted as such.
The Iraq Inquiry has presumably concluded public testimony. If so, their final witness was Tony Blair, brought back for a second chance to lie and lie some more.
This is the epic. Ava and C.I. Reading it, I'm glad I talked them into this. They had nothing they wanted to say on the issue, they insisted. And, at that time, they were telling the truth. But this was the TV story of the week and since it is political, I knew readers of this site would be expecting an article. So I begged and pleaded and brow beat until they agreed to tackle it. They did an amazing job.
This was when the entire edition appeared to have fallen apart. And a roundtable was a feature that would allow us to bring up a few topics and have something to point to.
We wrote this after the roundtable. C.I. had wanted more on Iraq and we just didn't have time. Wally and Cedric pitched this and C.I. was immediately on board. In fact, I can't think of anyone who wasn't. Thank you so much to Isaiah who did the illustration.
Rebecca, Betty, Marcia, Stan, Ann and Ty wrote this and we thank them for it.
A short item.
We were looking for something on Lynne Stewart when we found this from Workers World.
An excerpt from an "Iraq snapshot" last week. This is a topic addressed in the roundtable.
Mike, Elaine, Rebecca, Kat, Ruth, Betty, Cedric, Trina, Ann, Stan and Marcia wrote this and we thank them for it.
And that's what we managed to pull together this week.
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and
C.I.