By Nancy Wartik || Crosspost with The AARP Magazine \\ November & December 2007
The lust is gone. The fires are out. What happened? Is there anything you can do to rekindle love’s passion?
*Names of interviewees and their partners have been changed for privacy.
When she was in her 30s, Margaret Monaghan* ended a relationship because her boyfriend liked sex less than she did. “He thought sex once a week was more than enough,” she recalls. Continue reading ‘Whither Desire?’
BY JEREMY SCAHILL
Bush’s “Whores of War,” or, maybe, more appropriate, the boys from the “Coalition of the Billing.”
TOPICS OF PERMANENT INTEREST
Crosspost at THE NATION, where it originally appeared, and to whom we are grateful: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070402/scahill_vid
[first posted online on March 15, 2007]
Jeremy Scahill reports on the Bush Administration’s growing dependence on private security forces such as Blackwater USA and efforts in Congress to rein them in. This article is adapted from his new book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books). Continue reading ‘Bush’s Shadow Army’
The Iraqi resistance may merely want the Americans and other westerners out of Iraq, but bin Laden’s goal is more ample: to rid the entire Middle East of “crusader” influence. Though bin Laden is an unapologetic religious fundamentalist, it is his nationalist “foreign policy” that gains him as many supporters among the Arab masses as his strong beliefs in the infallibillity of the Koran.
BY PEPE ESCOBAR
The ultimate nightmare for White House/Pentagon designs on Middle East energy resources is not Iran after all: it’s a unified Iraqi
resistance, comprising not only Sunnis but also Shi’ites.
“It’s the resistance, stupid” - along with “it’s the oil, stupid”.
The intimate connection means there’s no way for Washington to
control Iraq’s oil without protecting it with a string of sprawling
military “super-bases”. Continue reading ‘It’s the Resistance, Stupid’
