3 things

1.Riverbend has been silent for two months. She posts again, about the partially-built US wall of Adhamiya. And leaving Iraq..

2. Naomi Wolf, in The Guardian:"Fascist America, in 10 easy steps"

From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all...

3."The War Party" James Antle in American Conservative magazine.(via Eric Alterman, who also discusses Wolf's essay briefly.)