Ron Paul Goes “Respectful”

The Washington Post has an article today on the number of Ron Paul’s relatives who worked for his presidential campaign. I will be curious if there are other analyses of how the Paul campaign spent $30 million. The Post article quoted Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton saying that Paul would be “continuing a positive, respectful [...]

Michael Schwartz Interview YouTubed

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Other things you could have blown $6 trillion on

Scifi author Charlie Stross recently discussed other alternatives for the monies that funded the Iraq war. He noted that using current technology the bounty could have created and staffed a colony of 500 astronauts on Mars or enabled the construction of tens of gigawatts in nuclear energy throughout the US. Or even helped build cities [...]

YouTube.com/AntiwarRadio

Announcing the creation, by one Anders Knight of the UK, of Antiwar Radio’s new YouTube channel. So far, he’s made videos out of last week’s interviews of actor John Cusack and casus belli debunker Gareth Porter and my most recent interview of Michael Scheuer from April 17. A new one of Ron Paul is on [...]

No Justice on Memorial Day

Here is a great Washington Post photo of Bush strutting at the White House as he receives visitors from the Rolling Thunder veterans motorcycle group. It is obscene how the same politicians who send Americans to die in unnecessary wars are treated like heroes on Memorial Day. One would hope that this day, above all [...]

Libertarian Party Nominates Bob Barr for President

After 6 ballots, the Libertarian Party national convention has nominated former Congressman Bob Barr. Barr has turned around on many major issues since leaving congress. He now favors: – Ending the Iraq War, withdrawal of all American troops from all foreign countries. – Ending the federal War on Drugs. – Repealing the Defense of Marriage [...]