Bill Clinton's memoir hit the shelves this week, pompously titled "My Life." The philanderer-in-chief also went on CBS' "60 Minutes" to hype the book defending his emperorship. According to agency reports, Clinton confessed he messed around with Monica Lewinsky "for...
I have been writing to the Website La Voz de Aztlan for several weeks now. They have been the main site promoting the bogus "Iraqi Rape" photos that have been circulating around the web. These photos are actually from a bad porno produced before the invasion of Iraq,...
That's right, this is the thousandth-and-first entry on Antiwar.com/blog. Some lower page news you may have missed this week: *Nazi War Criminal an Early CIA Agent. Yay Greatest Generation! *Brits Send Home 83 Pregnant Soldiers. "No, honey, you weren't an accident --...
I was on welfare back in the 1960s. That was a way of showing contempt for society's "work/progress" ethic, and if the state was willing to subsidize me while I protested the war and volunteered at the co-op, fine. Caseworkers loved my brownies, but the joke was on...
I almost never post hate mail. The posting of hate mail on blogs is usually a passive-aggressive form of hasty generalization – Ah, look what a bunch of raving lunatics/bigots my detractors are! But occasionally I get a piece that is truly instructive, one that wrings...
Led by the United States, global “defense” spending has risen 18 percent since 2001, presumably justified by an increase in global terrorism. According to a U.S. congressional study, terrorism has risen 35 percent since 2001. The increase in spending has coincided...
Amidst this glowing account, Better days beckon for Baghdad's weary postmen, about the dedication of the workers and all the improvements being made to the "new" Iraqi postal system, be sure not to miss the following sentence:''Hopefully within the next few months we...
Today's statement from Sibel Edmonds:For over two years the Attorney General, John Ashcroft, has been relentlessly engaged in actions geared towards covering up my reports and investigations into my allegations. His actions against my case include gagging the United...
Michael Froomkin parses the OLC's Aug. 1, 2002 Torture Memo ("the Bybee Memo".) This is a very helpful post to read especially if you're becoming confused by the sheer number of various torture memo leaks bombarding us daily. After explaining what the OLC is ( Justice...
In light of the information breaking in the White House's torture scandal, along with the legal complications of their thousands of detainees in Iraq as well as the fact that the Iraqi insurgents are clearly winning, I'm wondering who the Republicans are going to run...
