February 9, 2007   Mr. Stan Goff XXXXXXXXXXXXXX Raleigh, NC 276XX   Dear Mr. Goff:   Thank you for contacting me about the situation in Iraq. I share your frustration with President Bush’s failed policies, That’s not what I wrote about; but since this is a bullshit form letter, you don’t know that. I wrote [...]

Between the hyperventilated coverage of Anna Nicole’s autopsy today, a peculiar news story squeezed in as filler. YouTube is posting videos, taken with cell phones by students, of teachers in public school classrooms having violent, abusive outbursts. I saw this on MSNBC while I was dusting blinds, and it stopped me in my tracks. The [...]

A big hat tip to De Clarke for putting me onto this flash video, and to Lucas Gray for publishing it. While I would debate the low-balled death figures (the Lancet Report, extrapolated forward from last October, suggests with a very sound methodology that there have been around 700,000 Iraqis killed since the invasion — [...]

The 2007 war budget — which many Democrats will undoubtedly approve and allow to happen — will take spending up to a billion dollars every two-and-a-half days. I could say that $1 billion will buy so many doses of anti-retrovirals, or that it could pay 400 public workers a hundred dollars a day, or that [...]

It’s easy, if you’re willing to use the internet as a by-pass medium to get around the funders that control both parties. All other things being the same, there are five issues you can emphasize that will get you enough of the independent and Democrat crossover vote to win in the General Elections in 2008, [...]

Recent comments about the Pledge to Abstain have raised issues that will be covered in much more depth in The Insurgent’s Handbook. The main subject that needs a bit of clarification is the initiative. Make special note that I use the article THE; because when discussing THE initiative in the context of tactical conflict — [...]

I have posted a Petition-Online for those who are interested: a pledge to abstain from voting for anyone who continues to approve funds for the war. If you agree with this, please give the url the widest circulation possible. The text is below, but I want to re-emphasize that signing requires going to the url [...]

From Sara Rich Good Order and Discipline From Suzanne’s case to the world at large In thinking about this phrase “Good Order and Discipline” and its impact on my family, I have to come to the conclusion that the people defining “Good Order and Discipline” for Suzanne’s case are comparable to the Commander and Chief. [...]

An action appeal from Insurgent American Back when I was writing Full Spectrum Disorder, I noted that, during the initial phases of the Iraq invasion, Central Command (CENTCOM), the theater command for Southwest Asia and North Africa, held daily press briefings during which they would produce “the CENTCOM lie of the day.” This was in [...]

Our new site, Insurgent American, makes the claim that — however nascent and unknown it is right now — it is a “practical strategic resource.” It’s time to flesh that out a bit more, because the antiwar movement appears to be at an impasse. A good deal of that impasse can be attributed to the [...]