Fire up your inkjet and print your own t-shirts!

Check out Howard Martin's Operation Iraqi Freedom Action Cards, which educationally chronicle the invasion liberation day by day.

Those of you looking to buy the Pentagon's 55-card deck of "Most Wanted Iraqi Leaders" playing cards might want to know the following, gleaned from this article in Stars and Stripes:

• As of April 17, only 200 decks have been printed.
• They are not on real playing card stock, and the corners are not even rounded.
• They have not been distributed to soldiers.
• They appear to simply be a propaganda photo prop for Centcom news conferences.

But these facts haven't deterred CNN.com from creating front page text reading: "U.S. nabs another Saddam half-brother [...] Barzan is the five of clubs -- and number 38 out of 55 cards -- in the coalition's card deck of most wanted leaders." (2:31 PM EST Apr 17, 2003)

Four American Crusade t-shirts were auctioned at WisCon 26 to support the Tiptree Literary Award. Collectively the shirts raised over $200 from generous, politically embittered bidders.

Other political trading cards on the net include Russian Leaders and Eclipse's classic Friendly Dictators, both firmly in the satire camp, and now joining them are Tom Tomorrow's "War On Terror" Trading Cards from his excellent regular comic, This Modern World.

But alas, there also exist the highly commercial and scarily unironic Topps Enduring Freedom cards cheering on the current war upon Afghanistan, and the old Topps Desert Storm rah-rah cards from the Persian Gulf War as well.

Here's further pasteboard propaganda capitalizing on the present War of Terror: a set of way-jingoistic Antiterrorist Trading Cards.

And here's a news story and photo of a ghoulish upcoming set of Sept. 11 Victim Trading Cards. Anything for a buck, eh Kingsley Barham? Capitalism is such doubleplusgood stuff. Barham must be a doubleplustrue American Hero. Oh look! According to the Palm Beach Post, the IRS chased him down in 1983 for $11,886 in unpaid taxes. Quite the American Hero type. Of course nobody's going to print trading cards individually remembering the thousands of innocent Afghan citizens we blew into hamburger in our frenzy of revenge, will they? Who's even going to remember their existence? Certainly not the kids collecting the Topps war cards.

Predictably, the corporate-produced cards focus on making all the killing machinery look cool to our youth. But there's growing resistance: here's a parody logo for the current Topps cards: Enduring Fiefdom. And here's another critical logo. Here are two on war profiteering, though they limit their focus to Topps, rather than the big megacorps cashing in on "economic stimulus" and such. Finally, here's Herr Bush on a "Bush Rips Up the Constitution" card.

Those of you seeking a Kenneth Lay trading card should check out the Bush League Trading Cards issued by Texans for Public Justice. Kenny Boy's card identifies him as a world class power hitter, includes the stats to back that up, and notes that Team Enron has engaged in frequent player trades with the Bush dynasty. The 20-card set costs just five bucks postpaid. Sweet.

Slate has created a set of Corporate Scandal Trading Cards featuring everybody's favorite fraudmeisters: WorldCom, Enron, Global Crossing, Adelphia, Tyco, ImClone, Halliburton, Harken, Qwest and Andersen Consulting.

These cards were created with The Gimp, which is Free Software.

Thanks be to Adbusters for their brilliant corporate flag, souped up here with automotive and energy companies for the Corporate Citizens card.

(Enduring thanks to Nick at theprophet.net for mirroring these cards in a time of crisis.)