Media Bias, 101

A lesson in media bias — the headline of the CNN International story give us one narrative: “Kremlin critic barred from election” … And the body of the piece reports quite another: “Russia’s Central Election Commission disqualified one of Kremlin’s critics from the country’s presidential election Sunday, claiming that the signatures collected for his nominating [...]

Huckabee and Those WMD in Jordan

Following the GOP debate on Thursday night, Huckabee showed both his ignorance and his willingness to believe fairy tales, regardless of whether he heard them or made them up himself. During the debate, the Huckster said that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction (a meaningless term covering everything from WWI-era mustard gas to nukes) were like [...]

Looking for Facebook App Developer

Antiwar.com would like to make the casualty counter available to Facebook users. Do any of our readers know how to write a simple Facebook application that could grab the data available on a remote javascript file and display it on Facebook profiles? Please contact mike at antiwar (dot) com if you can help us out.

Bush Does Abraham

The intellectual bootlickers surrounding Bush have apparently persuaded him that he is the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln.   Fox News recently had unprecedented access to Bush to produce a documentary to air on Sunday night: ““George W. Bush: Fighting to the Finish.”  Fox reporter Bret Baier commented of his meetings with Bush: ” We talked a [...]

Anti-Iran Coalition in the Gulf? Read This.

Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service’s Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. If President George W. Bush’s main purpose in visiting the Gulf last week — as indicated by his call in Abu Dhabi last Sunday to confront Iran “before it is too late” — was to rally [...]

Living in a Dream World

Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service’s Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. If you need an example of just how sophomoric both Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard and AEI’s Michael Rubin can be, don’t miss Rubin’s latest article in the Standard, entitled “Living in a Dream World: The Political [...]