{"id":362,"date":"2004-02-21T08:19:04","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T12:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=362"},"modified":"2004-02-21T08:19:04","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T12:19:04","slug":"bloggers-who-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers who blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/majorbarbara.blogspot.com\/\">Major Barbara<\/a> links to this article [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/main\/article.php?ref=perelman20040218608\">registration required<\/a>]:<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #550; font size: 12x; padding: 5px; margin:\n5px;\">&#8220;In its effort to relieve overstretched U.S. troops in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired a private security company staffed with former henchmen of South Africa?s apartheid regime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reliance on apartheid enforcers was highlighted by an attack in Iraq last month that killed one South African security officer and wounded another who worked for the subsidiary of a firm called Erinys International. Both men once served in South African paramilitary units dedicated to the violent repression of apartheid opponents.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Juan Cole translates: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2004_02_01_juancole_archive.html#107726364676139542\">&#8216;Sistani Interview in Der Spiegel&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>River <a href=\"http:\/\/riverbendblog.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#107722853995935945\">comments<\/a> on the <i>NYT<\/i>&#8216;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/17\/politics\/campaign\/17MONE.html?pagewanted=1\">&#8216;Arabs in U.S. Raising Money to Back Bush&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Silber &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/3661.html\">The Charming Mr. Chalabi<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/blog\/jghindex.asp\">Jacob Hornberger<\/a> provides a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\">FFF<\/a>&#8216;s recent focus on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/whatsnew\/2004-02-09.htm\">devastating impact of Iraq sanctions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a joke.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxspeak.org\/mt\/\">Max<\/a> links to the <i>NYT<\/i>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/20\/business\/20jobs.html\">article<\/a> proving fact is stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Spinoza reports on the Pakistan army&#8217;s threat to demolish the homes of tribal leaders &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressaction.com\/pablog\/archives\/001316.html#001316\">in provinces bordering Afghanistan<\/a>&#8221; in order to coerce support for the capture of Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>Trish Wilson and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/trishwilson.typepad.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/the_aftermath_o.html\">The Aftermath of ANCPR&#8217;s Lowell Jaks Kidnapping His Son<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Kucinich <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kucinich.us\/pressreleases\/pr_022004a.php\">thanks George<\/a> for noticing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Barbara links to this article [registration required]: &#8220;In its effort to relieve overstretched U.S. troops in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired a private security company staffed with former henchmen of South Africa?s apartheid regime. &#8220;The reliance on apartheid &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-5Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}