Sweet sassy molassy, the DoD has implemented a Web 2.0 site that encourages soldiers to upload and share multimedia from the field as a way of sharing information.

"The band should be an active rock band, with a music genre consisting of Southern Rock, Pop Rock, Post-Grunge and Hard Rock. At least one member of the band should be recognizable as a professional celebrity."

"If stopping genocide in Africa really was on the agenda, why the focus on Sudan with 200,000 to 400,000 dead rather than Congo with five million dead?" The author argues it's because Sudan sits on oil.

A study shows official Army websites are more apt to reveal sensitive information than soldier blogs. One motivation may be that soldiers in the field have their own safety at stake, discouraging them from revealing too much.

An Army officer anonymously explains some of the reasoning behind blocking YouTube and MySpace.

Fifty-one percent of the 2008 federal budget will go to military-related spending.

Juan Cole provides an illustrated recap of Libby and Cheney's dirty deeds.

I may have to show my students this cool visualization of January's casualties in Iraq when we discuss information design.

This photo by Nina Berman won a World Press Photo award.

This interesting academic paper examines the development of aural weapons. Did anyone catch the rave-meets-Clockwork Orange scene in "Lost" last night?

Right-wing bloggers have suggested that the Israeli attack on a Lebanese ambulance was a hoax. While the bloggers stayed home and performed textual analysis on photographs, Human Rights Watch went to Lebanon and concluded there was an Israeli attack.

The Bush administration waged a semantic battle after NBC News decided to term the conflict in Iraq a "civil war" yesterday.

Not only was she a covert operative, but headed much of the Iraq operation.

The incumbent Kabila got 44% of the vote, forcing a runoff and leading to violence between political factions.

This sure seems like how during the Hurricane Katrina aftermath whites "salvaged" and blacks "looted."

In lieu of clear written orders, military commanders on the ground are receiving instructions in the form of complex PowerPoint slides. You've got to click through to see this gem.

Tom Coates calls the application Give Israel Your United Support "a really troubling kind of troll-supporting political malware, representing a technologically-empowered massively-distributed form of propoganda that I've never seen before." Read the whole

"Last Sunday, the IDF's Intelligence unit managed to hack into Hezbollah's Al-Manar television station and several Hezbollah websites."

Ethan Zuckerman describes the post-colonial history of Somalia both before and after the US intervention in 1992.

This overview of Sunday's elections in the DRC emphasizes the social impact of the militias that fought in Congo's civil wars and how victims and militia members living side-by-side has created tension in the nation.

Analysis of the upcoming elections in the DRC, the first since it gained independence in 1960 and two devastating wars in the 1990s.

More Juan Cole commentary on Israel's disgusting bombing of civilian targets in Lebanon. He says, "this is nothing less than an ethnic cleansing of the Shiites of southern Lebanon, an assault on an entire civilian population's way of life."

Juan Cole's rundown of news about Israel's attacks on Lebanon.

I'm not sure I buy this 100%, but this piece describes the "Stabbed in the Back" rhetorical strategy used by conservatives. They argue that internal disagreement is at fault for disastrous wars like Vietnam and Iraq.

A prominent neocon describes horrific scenes from the recent violence in Iraq. Josh Marshall suggests that this may represent the end of any substantial support for the war in Iraq.

Wow, I wish I could attend this series; last summer I worked on a little Vietnam and popular memory project. At least this gives more movies to add to my list.

Via Chutry, a Union of Concerned Scientists Flash animation that explains why using a tactical nuclear weapons is a bad idea.

Juan Cole debunks the hype around Iran's announcement of making rich uranium. Suggests Bush's saber-rattling is far more dangerous than a potential Iranian bomb.

summary of Howard Kaloogian's photographic truthiness.

AT&T bars soldiers in Iraq from using cheaper prepaid phone cards and engaging in other shenanigans, according to this blog post. Way to support the troops, Ma Bell.