A Few Links. posted by Richard Seymour

Yes, yes, yes, I'm a cheap, lazy, pie-munching, lager-guzzling fat tart, but there it is. Once again, I'm reduced to linking to other people who have something to say for want of having the energy to say anything myself.

First, Blood and Treasure performs an excellent take-down on the new tag team of Nick Cohen and Oliver Kamm, particularly with regard to Cohen's fatuous claim that "For the crime of preferring feudal bureaucracy to bourgeois democracy he would have tied copies of Das Kapital around the necks of the SWP leaders and thrown them into the Thames." We don't, he wouldn't have, and such a stance would not be novel even if it were accurately imputed to us.

James at Dead Men Left has a good article on the Nader campaign, and also hurls his guts up over a list of the "funniest Britons" .

Finally, presumably in a bid to win back some of his ailing influence, Ayatollah al-Sistani is to lead a march to Najaf to demand American withdrawal from the city . Meanwhile, in the same story, a peaceful demonstration by al-Sadr supporters was fired upon, allegedly by members of the new Iraqi National Guard. Obviously modelling themselves on the American version, then.

Update: Daniel Brett has some answers for those baffled about the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guineau. And Dead Men Left talks over the head of Oliver Kamm on the topic of political Islam. Kamm wouldn't know what the term 'political Islam' entailed if you impressed it on his brow with a brickbat, as is so amply demonstrated in this case. And, the lardy lout of Iraqi politics, Muqtada al-Sadr, gains in popularity even as Ayatollah Sistani returns to Iraq .