Amazon.com has a great sale:
Murray Rothbard’s 4-volume history of Early America, Conceived in Liberty is a mere $63 for all four books. This set has been selling for $100 for many years.
Make sure you order it using this link, so that Antiwar.com gets a cut of the sale.
Read the excerpt “Pennsylvania’s Anarchist Experiment: 1681-1690.”
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Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I’ll be talking with Walter Block, of the Mises Institute and Loyola University all about liberty and economics, Monica Benderman about the conviction of her husband Kevin for refusing to go back to Iraq, and reporter David Enders live from there, about the permanent crisis in Fallujah.
Update: Show’s over. [...]
The neocons now think China is going to attack us with… earthquakes. Lunacy, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
Here’s a video of a band called Bright Eyes playing a pretty cool antiwar song on Leno.
The American Conservative briefing by Philip Giraldi that has been getting all the attention is now available online.
Former CIA officer Giraldi discusses the Pentagon’s plans to nuke Iran, details of an internal CIA review of George Tenet, and the Shi’ite revenge killings going on in Baghdad.
Over on the blog, John Derbyshire – of whom Gene Healy once wrote, “It’s almost as if a team of genetic scientists took a mouth-breathing, beer-swilling, Pak-bashing specimen of pure Cockney trash and raised his IQ by 100 points.” – keeps it real:
I would much rather we had done ten times as much damage, killed [...]
Debbie Clark covering the court-martial for Antiwar.com from Fort Stewart, Georgia, reports that judge Col. Donna M. Wright has convicted Sgt. Kevin Benderman of the charge of missing movement,” failing to convict on the charge of desertion.
Updated: Judge Wright sentenced Sgt. Benderman to 15 months. Observers felt this was a harsher sentence than expected [...]
It’s funny the way I did my first podcast. The software had just come in, and I was experimenting with the editing function. A copy of The Double Axe, by Robinson Jeffers, was on my desk, by happenstance, and I picked it up: it seemed to me that poetry and podcasting sort of go together. [...]
In the aforementioned post by Glenn Reynolds about the contras and Antiwar.com (with bonus balderdash from Stephen Schwartz), Reynolds writes:
Yeah, the refrain’s a familiar one, since it’s always the same: Our guys are the bad guys, the only atrocities are by our guys, the murderous thugs our guys oppose are actually pure-minded agrarian reformers, and [...]
Tuesday at 5pm eastern time, I will be filling in on the boss’s show, and talking with former CIA man Philip Giraldi about this curious bit he wrote in the American Conservative (not online) among other things:
The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) [...]
His High-and-Mightiness, Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame, was soooo pissed off that I blogged his endorsement of contra terrorism that he gave a free blog ad to “Contra Cafe,” an outfit selling coffee, t-shirts, and perhaps old atrocity pictures now that these former Somocistas are out of the assassination and drug-dealing business:
“Yes, that’s a blogad [...]
This guy is a big pro-war blogger and a vocal advocate of “spreading democracy and freedom” to Iraq.
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: I say it’s a good thing that New York police will start random bag searches on the subways.
Oh, I know it will be inconvenient when I’m late for a meeting and it’s 120-degrees down there and [...]
