iraq

Sloganeering Towards Fallujah

Hamilton Nolan · 03/10/10 03:46PM

The Way We Live Now: Boldly Embracing Change. We must Move Forward and Evolve With Strength and Reward Success and other such buzzwords, if we are to survive as a nation in which people "buy" things. Not that you can.

Blackwater Allegedly Put Prostitute on the Payroll

Hamilton Nolan · 02/11/10 09:38AM

Just the latest outrageous allegation against Blackwater, the prosecution-proof mercenary army that somehow ran amok whilst doing the work of god and country overseas: they billed you, the taxpayer, for the services of a prostitute, allegedly. For morale purposes!

An Iraq Vet, His Dog and an Unraveling War Story

John Cook · 02/03/10 06:34PM

Luis Carlos Montalván returned from the Iraq war and launched a media career — he's attending Columbia's J-School — based on a battle tale that made him a poster boy for PTSD. Now an AP reporter thinks he's a fraud.

Blackwater's Latest Piece of (Alleged) Scumbaggery

Ravi Somaiya · 02/01/10 06:15AM

Blackwater, that private army of God, allegedly shot 17 people dead in Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007. This did not go over so well. The Justice Department is to investigate allegations they followed up with $1m in bribes to try and keep their Iraqi contracts. [NYT]

Religion Writer: 'F—k Off'

Hamilton Nolan · 01/25/10 01:49PM

In your soaking Monday media column: a religion writer does god's work against crappy press releases, a public Chicago media sobriety fight, McClatchy just misses being car bombed, and the first wearable magazine, allegedly.