Billmon was the pseudonym of an allegedly
American blogger, who provided his own analysis and commentary on political topics, and who was mainly active in the early 2000s when he published material critical of the US Invasion of Iraq. His blog was called ''Whiskey Bar''.
Career as a blogger
Billmon was one of the earliest participants at
DailyKos
Daily Kos ( ) is a group blog and internet forum focused on the U.S. Democratic Party and liberal American politics. The site includes glossaries and other content. It is sometimes considered an example of " netroots" activism.
Daily Kos was ...
. His own blog, Whiskey Bar, came into being in the aftermath of the
American invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. The actual name of the blog ''Whiskey Bar'' is taken from a line from
Bertolt Brecht's "
Alabama Song," quoted at the top of the blog.
He wrote extended pieces on domestic politics, the
Iraq war
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, partof = the Iraq conflict and the War on terror
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, and the
US economy
The United States is a highly developed mixed-market economy and has the world's largest nominal GDP and net wealth. It has the second-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP) behind China. It has the world's seventh-highest per capita G ...
.
At the end of June 2004 Billmo
announced that he would be closing them down.
Billmon continued posting his analysis and comments, with some periods of inactivity, over the following two and a half years.
On December 28, 2006, Billmon stopped blogging at The Whiskey Bar,
and the URL www.billmon.org became unavailable. In late April 2007, a more or less complete copy of Whiskey Bar re-surfaced, but was down again by October 2007. On July 31, 2008, Billmon returned to Daily Kos to post a diary entry in regard to
John McCain 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain's presidential campaign entitled "The Great White Hope," and has posted sporadically on DailyKos since then., also maintaining a
Twitter
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account.
Another blog now serves as base for Billmon's followers
Moon of Alabama
References
External links
Moon of Alabama (Billmon's current website)Billmon's Diary at Daily Kos (inactive last entry 2013)* The Whiskey Bar (inactive) https://web.archive.org/web/20060413093141/http://www.billmon.org/
archived (inactive last 2006)
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American bloggers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)