A British view from the Guardian Unlimited on How to Save the Brand America. Even our friends have some questions about our motives.

Interesting reports on the war in Iraq proported to be from the Russion GRU over at Venik's Aviation. I don't have a clue how real they are but they are more or less accurate and they provide a different view.

And Christopher Allbritton is in Turkey and trying to get into Iraq as an independent, "blog journalist". Check out his entries at Back to Iraq 2.0. If you're really keen at supporting the independence if the Internet (a opposed to it's slow assimilation by the Big Guys) support Christopher by sending money .