Back to Iraq 3.0 is a new weblog, only 3 weeks old, by Christopher Allbritton who is currently working as journalist for the Time magazine in Baghdad. It is the honest and open diary of a young western civillian in Iraq and provides many interesting insights into the current situation in the country. Christopher has [...]

After my little rant yesterday, here another piece on the situation in Iraq… I found this very interesting article on the current situation, “Whose Chaos Is This Anyway?” by Mark LeVine who recently visited the country and had a chance to talk to many Iraqis and also to some of the US bureaucrats who are [...]

For quite some time I have been wondering where the US economy is headed. For about a year now I had the feeling that we are driving through dense fog and as a solution for not seeing enough we are actually speeding up! Our rising debt was really only possible because Japan and China are [...]

Here is a site listing the numbers from 1 to 10 in more than 4500 languages. It is interesting to browse through this massive catalog of languages, all of them representing a separate culture, history and the identity of a people who were proud, who talked, laughed and sang in that language. And while many [...]

Quote of the day from turningtables (I’ve talked about this blog before) “it is very hard to be a half full kind of person in the middle of this half empty kind of thing…” It is, isn’t it? Over the last year or two, a group of ugly and nauseating characters has changed the world [...]

turningtables is a blog written by an US soldier in Iraq. He writes almost daily and his reports are a very honest and intimate look into the daily lifes of the US soldiers deployed in Iraq. Here a few quotes: “i actually have been performing an ‘experiment’…i’ve been asking random soldiers who the vice president [...]

If you think that the western public didn’t know much about Iraq, compare that to our knowledge of North Korea: Zero. Nada. North Korea could as well be located on one of Jupiter’s outer moons. While doing some comparative architectural studies (ok, I was surfing skyscrapers.com) I stumbled over the fact that a 105 story [...]

The US occupation of Iraq is slowly turning into a dilemma not just for the US government, but for the whole world. The American military is caught in a giant trap and while a rising body count will probably end the occupation, the world will be left with the task of rebuilding Iraq and keeping [...]