John Wayne and Jane Addams

That's the yin-yang of U.S. imperialism David Brooks celebrates in this asinine op-ed. Tell us more of this schizophrenic hermaphrodite and what it's doing in Iraq, oh Oracle of Official Conservatism: [Capt. John Prior] was inside a gas station when a commotion...

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Antiwar.com Joins Ranks of Major Online Media

So there I was, wasting time while waiting for that little elf Jeremy to post this column, surfing around until I wandered over to Matt Drudge, and clicked on a story headlined: AMAZON: DRUDGE SURPASSES MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS IN WEB TRAFFIC... This took me to Alexa, the...

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Power and propaganda

LewRockwell.com, always a useful site when it comes to libertarian views on politics, economics and philosophy, has a very interesting link today. It doesn't mention the Balkans at all - in fact, it's about French fast food. But it contains an interesting examination...

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Serbs and victimhood

I received a note from a reader yesterday about an article on the Financial Times website . Without presuming to speak about the actual contents of the article - read it and make up your own mind - the author caught my correspondent's attention with these passages:...

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Descartes with an M-16

An American soldier explains his concern for Iraqi "hearts and minds" to a Western journalist: I asked my escort Specialist Jack Craig, a military policeman from Minnesota, how he correlated the "strike first" directive with the US military's current policy of...

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Oh, Jesus

Armstrong Williams, noted chronicler of born-again Zionism, risks provoking the ire of Abe Foxman: Our close relationship with Israel also presents a rapid response option. During Desert Storm, Israeli forces prevented Saddam's troops from invading Saudi Arabia and...

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Cash or Charge?

FOB Antony S. comments on "Why There's No Left Left": Point taken, but do these people really own all this stuff, or are they just renting it from banks and loan companies?

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