The reaction to the Hagel-for-President boom, on both the left and the neocon right, continues to confirm my jaundiced view of both: “Outside of the foreign policy realm,” avers Matt Yglesias, “there’s not much to like here from a liberal point of view.”
That’s pretty neat how Yglesias manages to shrug off the single most important [...]
It isn’t just the neocon bloggers and Dick Cheney who are gritting their teeth over the rise of Senator Chuck Hagel as the new paladin of the antiwar movement: Cenk Uygur, over at the Huffpuff — otherwise known as the bulletin board of the DNC — chimes in with a post entitled “Who is John [...]
Long-time opponent of the war in Iraq, Senator Robert Byrd, recently remarked about Bush’s troop surge plan:
“At the outset of this war, the Bush administration believed, apparently, that democracy could be exported through the barrel of a gun. That belief was wrong them; it is wrong today. Twenty thousand more troops won’t make it right.”
This video (hat tip: Lew Rockwell) is revealing in a number of different ways. First of all, it shows up Hillary Clinton for what she truly is: an opportunist who is only tenuously acquainted with the truth. She now claims that if she had known then what she knows now, she would never have voted [...]
Antiwar Radio: Richard Cummings
Why did America invade Iraq?
Oil? Israel? …
Jets, bombs and taxed dollars.
So says Richard Cummings as he explains the story behind his Playboy.com article “Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels“: the direct role in policy-making played by Lockheed Martin and the rest of the Military Industrial Complex and the amount of money [...]
I was wondering when it would happen. Nine months after the last suicide bombing in Israel, another bomber struck — this time in Eilat, a southern resort town on the Red Sea which has never experienced a suicide attack. Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack, in an attempt to [...]
“Two weeks after a senior Pentagon official suggested that corporations should pressure their law firms to stop assisting detainees at Guantanamo Bay, major companies have turned the tables on the Pentagon and issued statements supporting the law firms’ work on behalf of terrorism suspects.”
No comment necessary except “deeeelicious.”
This was my favorite photo from the exuberant antiwar demonstration in DC on Saturday. Where is the Secret Service when you need them? (Probably out chasing down other 81 year olds who wrote vague letters to the editor).
I have another 10 photos (including a full size version of the above shot) from the demo here. Comments [...]
Antiwar Radio: Barry Lando
Barry Lando, author of Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush explains some of the history of that unfortunate land.
MP3 here.
Barry Lando’s journalistic experience includes 25 years as a producer with CBS “60 Minutes”, which he left in 1997. Prior to [...]
Antiwar Radio: Steve Clemons
The New America Foundation’s Steve Clemons discusses Lawrence Wilkerson, Flynt Leverett, Iran’s offer to do whatever they were told and how Cheney destroyed the opportunity to negotiate and whether the secret war against Iran and Syria has already begun.
MP3 here.
Steven Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which [...]
Antiwar Radio: Frida Berrigan
Frida Berrigan from the World Policy Institute about her article “Raptors, Robots and Rods from God” about the future of military weapons technology.
MP3 here.
Frida Berrigan is a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Frida worked with [...]
Antiwar Radio: Tom Rawls
Mesa City, Arizona Councilman, Tom Rawles explains that he is refusing to say the pledge of allegiance at council meetings to protest Bush’s troop surge. He’s been the recipient of death threats and police protection since taking this stance.
MP3 here.
