Jim Powell
US Entry in WWI Caused WWII
Barbara Slavin
Bush’s Gifts to Iran’s Neocons
Philip Giraldi
Everybody’s a Terrorist
The Hidden Costs of the War
Two recent articles in USA Today illustrate the hidden costs of the war.
The first is about an Army study that found mental issues in 25,000 troops that came back from Iraq, including “post-traumatic stress disorder and depression to substance abuse and family conflict.” 7,000 soldiers admitted to having a drinking problem.
The second is about police [...]
Glenn Greenwald
Howard Defeated Down Under
‘We Support the Troops Who Oppose the War’
Liam Madden from Iraq Veterans Against the War sends the following:
In 1969, the My Lai massacre helped fuel popular opposition to the Vietnam War. U.S. political and military leaders insisted that such crimes were isolated exceptions. Members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War knew differently.
In January of 1971, over one hundred Vietnam Veterans gathered [...]
Nobody expects the American Inquisition
The Spotlight article for today offers a somber and foreboding analysis of The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.
It certainly gives me warm and fuzzy feelings inside.
Be sure to check out Andrew Napolitano’s latest book “A Nation of Sheep” (here is a review by Thomas DiLorenzo) in which he critiques and details numerous totalitarian [...]
How Can You Have Any Pudding If You Don’t Eat Your Meat?
Headmaster Sullivan tells us to clean our plates:
Imagine an Obama-McCain race: adult, graceful, necessary, and good for us.
Ah, Mr. Platitude vs. Mr. Come-Unglued: yep, it’ll be a regular Metamucil martini. Very adult!
Actions Have Reactions?! Nonsense! Witchcraft!
Today’s nugget of conventional wisdom comes from liberal hawk George Packer:
In this election, the isolationist candidate is the Texas congressman Ron Paul. He frequently attacks the core rationale of Bush’s foreign policy, and receives enthusiastic applause for doing so, which indicates that Republican views about the war in Iraq might be more heterodox than the [...]
The Biggest Gas-Guzzler of them All
After Al Gore won the Peace Prize I mentioned that he did next to nothing to dismantle or even criticize military intervention during his terms as a senator and Vice President.
Yet, despite his fawning over a government controlled “green” world, neither he nor the rest of the political class have done anything to stymie the [...]
US State Dept: Shi’ite-Led Govt Larger Threat than al-Qaeda
The November 21 Iraq Weekly Status Report, published by the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the US Department of State:
Senior military commanders now portray the intransigence of Iraq’s Shiite dominated government as the key threat facing the U.S. effort in Iraq, rather than al-Qaida terrorists, Sunni insurgents or Iranian-backed militias. Several U.S. military [...]
Robert Parry
Neocons Think They’ve Won Iraq
