A U.S. policy of preemption and a push for new nuclear weapon designs could be a recipe for disaster that makes proliferation more likely, not less. No More Nuclear Hypocrisy: Defending the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty While the alarm is repeatedly sounded about Iran and North Korea, few news outlets told us when the head of [...]
Sibel Edmonds, the heroic FBI contract translator – turned – whistle blower, despite the Department of Justice dropping their attempted application of the “state secrets privilege” to silence her last week, is now up against the same tactic with a different name. According to John Files at the New York Times: “The government has told [...]
I’m watching a C-SPAN 2 panel on the European Union sponsored by the Hudson Institute and featuring contributors to the book, The Neocon Reader, including the perpetually smug Bill Kristol. Obviously, the neocons are struggling to formulate a response to the European Union, insofar as they are always fearful of anything that might serve as [...]
From Ann Coulter’s latest: Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president. Via James Wolcott.
Today on the Weekend Interview Show (4-6pm Eastern Time), I’ll be talking with civil rights attorney and author Elaine Cassel about the case of Lynn Stewart. The lawyer for the bomber of the World Trade Center in 1993, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Stewart was convicted on February 10th of “providing material support” to terrorism. In [...]
For the past couple of years, we have repeatedly heard spokesmen from the National Guard and the reserve aver that they were continuing to meet their basic recruitment goals within a few percentage points. It never ceased to amaze me that there were so many who would sign up even as the debacle in Iraq [...]
