The parable of David and Goliath has re-emerged on the world stage. Ironically, the most recent battle cast the Israeli State as the heavy. The “David” of the piece was decentralized “4GW” (4th Generation Warfare) as deployed by an estimated 3,000 Hezbollah fighters.
The outcome of that battle is a serious blow to central governments everywhere. [...]
Thomas R. Pochari, editor of World Affairs Monthly interviews Antiwar.com founder and managing director, Eric Garris, about the web, the universe and everything.
Real Audio file here.
I appreciate LewRockwell.com and Antiwar.com posting my article on “Every Day is 1956: The Hungarian Revolution Today.”
Hungarians have taken to the streets this past week to denounce a lying government. The Socialist Prime Minister confessed grossly deceiving voters in election last April, and many Hungarians got mad as hell.
There is a debate going on at [...]
Thirteen years ago today, the New York Times revealed how easy it would have been for the Feds to have stopped Ramzi Yousef’s bombing of the World Trade Center before it started:
Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
Thursday October 28, 1993
By Ralph Blumenthal
Page A1
Law-enforcement officials were [...]
That’s the phrase my old high school history teacher used to described the two political parties in America, and the evidence for her case just keeps piling up.
Take for instance, this blog entry, by investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss, who noticed that the Republican incumbent in Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district, Donald “Capital Hillside Strangler” Sherwood, [...]
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Poor old George Bush Jr. He’s got nothing left but straw men and circular logic to keep American soldiers in Iraq.
First he implies that his critics believe the “sophisticated propaganda” of the enemy terrorists that “our” presence is the cause of all Iraq’s problems – a case I’ve never heard made by anyone, American [...]
Letter of the week comes from Zev Berkovich, who could be the next great warblogger:
Subject: You guys are crazy (and extremely misinformed)
Hi,
I’m sorry to say, but you guys don’t seem to understand anything about what’s going on in the Middle East.
Are you suggesting that Iran should be allowed to develop nuclear weapons? This is [...]
I’ve been watching for coverage of Muhammed Yunnus getting the Nobel Peace Prize – and am disappointed at the desultory results. But why should I be surprised? Yunnus isn’t glamorous or political particularly, just really smart, and really compassionate, and came up with an idea that has been making a difference in many very poor [...]
From my down-under pen-pal Tim Gillin over at Stress:
“The Australian opposition leader Kim Beazley has labeled Iraq, the worst foreign policy failure since Vietnam. Beazley, recently in the US, outlined a proposed withdrawal plan he calls ‘repositioning’. Beazley is generally considered to be ‘on the right’ of the Australian Labor Party (which is itself generally [...]
Newsday’s Walt Handelsman, aided by Roy Furchgott, has a wonderful animated cartoon featuring singing spies. The cartoon is here.
This makes the National Security Agency wiretap issue so simple even a congressman might be able to get the point. Perhaps congressmen will respond by merely adding an amendment to a “spying legalization” bill to prohibit the feds from [...]
Intrepid Washington reporter Robert Dreyfuss interviews Salah Mukhtar, who is “close” to the Iraq opposition. It’s clearly as bad or worse than you think.
Our choices seem to be:
1. Stay the course of installing the dictatorship of the Iran parties,
2. Switch sides back to Saddam’s Ba’athists,
3. Break the former country into three, “hardening” the soft regional [...]
