The always intriguing Paul Cantor on imperialism vs. trade in the Black Sea hood: What drove one empire after another to try to take over the Black Sea, despite the enormous expenditure of resources, human and material, that was always involved? Different motives were...
Asks this fellow, who thinks we're leftists. I just love political commentary straight from the medulla oblongata: Bush right. Antiwar not Bush. Antiwar left. Left bad. (He must have hated watching this!) If our esteemed detractor wanted commentary on Saddam's...
U.S. soldiers Monday used batons to break up a demonstration in Tikrit to protest against the capture of Saddam Hussein near his hometown. About 700 demonstrators gathered outside Tikrit University chanting pro-Saddam slogans. Soldiers shouted back "Saddam is in our...
From Bush's speechwriter to God's press secretary. From today's Diary: My take on the capture of Saddam will appear in tomorrow’s National Post. I’ll post a link as soon as the Post has the story on line. For now, let’s say that while the President’s opponents have...
Finally! Justin Raimondo's The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection is now available from Amazon.com.
Take a few minutes to read this interesting post by blogger Ken MacLeod. A self-described "ex-Trot," MacLeod lays out the leftist case FOR war (sounds amazingly similar to the current White House line, no?), then contrasts it with (an oversimplified but generally...
The following email is circulating between war-supporters in an apparent attempt to refute the claims that the Iraqi occupation has become a quagmire. I thought that I would respond to each point made. My responses are the non-italic text. Subject: Iraq a Success This...
The Houston corporate headquarters for Halliburton-Kellogg, Brown and Root has had the old building sign removed and replaced with a new KBR sign. The story did not appear as a regular news story, but rather as a series of captions for ten Reuters photos. Today,...
Bush's showy and controversial Thanksgiving Day flight to Baghdad has created a stir in Great Britain, where Air Force One -- in its haste and demand for discretion -- ignored international law:Of more concern, air traffic controllers in Britain are seething over the...
He obviously ignores David Frum's column, as revealed in this profile of antiwar.com. As Andrew Sullivan so charmingly puts it, the money quote: Although writer and editor Tom Englehardt, who runs the popular political blog TomDispatch.com, says he reads Antiwar.com...
