At least according to a recent edit of the Wikipedia entry.
While Stephen Colbert pokes fun of these pranks, the CIA and intelligence community have ulterior motives for the community-based open encyclopedia.
The New York Times reports that a group of investigators at Wikileaks recently busted a propaganda team based out of Gitmo detention center. Based [...]
US Still Backs Iran in Iraq
All the cool stuff I’m not allowed to write about on Antiwar.com goes to Taki’s Top Drawer. The Huckster bloviates about education, why Rudy’s off his game (hurrah!), Alan Keyes is either high or nuts, the Paulista rebellion against the neocons at National Review, and whatever happened to the AIPAC spy trial — it’s all over [...]
Just coming across the wire: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spent $16,000 on flowers this year. Of course, not one was strewn on the grave of a soldier who fell in the senseless war in Iraq she and her party have continued to fund. According to her office, all those posies went to various [...]
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While hard-line neo-conservatives associated with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Commentary, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page (See Bret Stephens column, “The NIE Fantasy”) continue to rage against last week’s National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, two [...]
Iran Lies Shift and Back Again
US Has Abused Iraq for a Long Time
I read this article and failed to find a satisfactory explanation of the statement in the synopsis that “the U.S. troop buildup has brought down violence.” I see where Sunni groups have decided that al-Qaeda was — for now — a worse foe than the US occupation. I see how Sadr has ordered his men [...]
Last night I finally met one of those Paulian supporters that are currently in the military: he is a fellow Texan that attended a service academy and has been deployed to a number of theaters. And while many of the active-duty soldiers that I have met here in Seoul have been trigger happy, my [...]
Quite tragic.
CNN was ready to help lead the march to attack Iran with its special “We Were Warned – Iran Goes Nuclear.” The two-hour show was to air December 12.
Rather than deal with facts, the show was set in a future where Iran has become a nuclear threat. That special was “based on [...]
A recent short piece in The Nation, “Ron Paul’s Roots,” by Christopher Hayes, has this eye-popping denunciation of Rep. Paul by the unbearably pompous Brink Lindsey, a Cato Institute “scholar” and recently appointed vice president for research,
“He doesn’t strike me as the kind of person that’s tapping into those elements of American public opinion that [...]
Treason at Pearl Harbor
