Saturday beginning at 4pm Eastern time on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Jim Powell, author of Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and World War II. In the second hour, the guests will be Elaine Cassel to...
How to make a difference in Iraq
L to R: Rafat, Dr. Salam and Raed Raed Jarrar, his family and girlfriend Niki began a project some five months ago to purchase and distribute medicines in Iraq. They thought that being Iraqi (except Niki, who's Iranian), they'd know the best places to distribute the...
Iraqi Victims of American Delusions
Since a murderous, violent resistance movement (which antiwar people predicted) rules much of Iraq rather than the liberation cakewalk and democratic utopia (that prowar people predicted), an inevitable class of victims of the American invasion of Iraq has emerged...
Recommended reading
Jonathan Schwarz has a great interview with Chris Floyd posted. Just so you know what you're missing if you don't go over there and read this interview, here's Chris Floyd on Matt Taibbi (who I vote for as the subject for Jonathan's next interview, if he can't get JD...
Oil and Instinct
I've received some replies to my blog entry of April 3. Unfortunately, most of them rehash issues I've already addressed. I did provide a link to the pre-April 3 debate but I don't blame people for not going back and reading all that before e-mailing in their...
And Farce Repeats Itself as … What, Exactly?
Does Michael Ledeen know that Jonah Goldberg is laughing at him?
Rummy in Kyrgyzstan
Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to show up in Kyrgyzstan to "discuss issues of future expansion of defense cooperation between the United States and Kyrgyzstan." Translation: you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
David Horowitz: All Wrong, All the Time
I hear that David Horowtiz spent half a million bucks on developing his conspiracy site, "Discover the network," which purports to document the "subversive" activities of anyone he disagrees with. If so, his donors should ask for their money back, because if the entry...
“Buds of Democracy” in Iraq
Any guerrilla war has lulls, slowdowns, little coffee breaks that last a week, a month, sometimes years. It doesn't mean the war's over. The VC used to go home when it was time to harvest the rice crop; every time they did, the Saigon PR office would declare that the...
Rumsfeld lectures Iraqi Parliament
All those recently elected Iraqis who've been screwing around like forming a government is no big deal, have had the riot act read to them by Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld’s message was made extremely loudly and clearly in his indomitable style when he told the interim Iraqi...


