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Joshua Atchley, wounded in Baghdad, : “I want people to know the price of war.” The war “[is] bullshit. This war is complete bullshit.” “Because I don’t like pretending I have an eye.” (cryptome)

Jeremy Scahill: According to new statistics released by the Pentagon, with Barack Obama as commander in chief, there has been a 23% increase in the number of “Private Security Contractors” working for the Department of Defense in Iraq in the second quarter of 2009 and a 29% increase in Afghanistan, which “correlates to the build [...]

Army of Dude runs through the Iraq-based videogame possibilities: (jl)

The gift that keeps on giving. WikiP: Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the “Big Five” accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations. In 2002, the firm voluntarily surrendered its licenses to practice as Certified Public Accountants [...]

Kamber + Arango, “4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images,” NYT (26 July ’08): News organizations say that such restrictions are one factor in declining coverage of the war, along with the danger, the high cost to financially ailing media outlets and diminished interest among Americans in following the war. By a [...]

Mutli-National [sic] Forces—Iraq (MNF-I) Combined Press Information Center International Zone, Baghdad, Iraq As of: 20 NOV 07 NEWS MEDIA GROUND RULES (IAW Change 3, DoD Directive 5122.5) Ground Rules Agreement The following is a listing of ground rules that have been developed to protect members of the Armed Services from the release of information that [...]

So says Paul Ekman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at UCSF and an expert on facial expressions, according to Errol Morris in “The Most Curious Thing” in the NYT. As prosecutors become more media-savvy with all their perp-walks, PR campaigning leaks, and the like, it follows to reason that filmmakers would become the new prosecutors: forensics [...]