American Roy Hallums pleads for his life on a video released today.In the video, hostage Roy Hallums spoke slowly, rubbing his hands as he sat with the barrel of the rifle inches from his head. He said he had been arrested by a "resistance group" because...
The brouhaha sparked by Seymour Hersh's recent piece exposing Pentagon plans to attack Iran was generated, in part, by his revelation that American agents had crossed the border and were spying on the Iranians on their own territory: Tony Blankley got so bent out of...
Bill at thoughts on the eve of the apocalypse has a chock-full-of-information MegaPost where I found out that Riverbend's posts will be made into a book:In her riveting weblog, a remarkable young Iraqi woman gives a human face to war and occupation. In August 2003,...
The New York Post, in a Saturday editorial, called for punishing Doubleday, the book publisher, for putting out The Al Qaeda Reader, a compendium of writings by Osama bin Laden & his gang: "Americans are right to wonder if Bertelsmann is on their side in the War on...
Inquiring minds want to know: "Why are we flying Allawi around on military aircraft?", asks Steve Clemons.
Moqtada Al-Sadr, no slouch at political maneuvering, appears to have preserved several options for his response to the looming elections. Anthony Shadid, in the Washington Post, on the Sadrists' stance toward the Ayatollah Sistani:Sadr's men have stopped short of...
In Jerry Z. Muller's The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought, one finds a detailed description of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in the context of the anti-commerce/anti-market era in which it was written. Hobbes questioned his era's Christian virtues of...
Even Tony Blankley is heading for the exits on the President's Trotskyite inaugural speech: "Utopian" and "unsustainable" are a few of the kindest characterizations he had to offer on "The McLaughlin Group." Pat had the best line: "He's Woodrow Wilson on...
The warblog-O-sphere echo chamber is busy linking to itself in a self-referential circle-post over Jackie Spinner's Washington Post account of a pro-American Iraqi, humiliated by American troops in a home raid: On the night of Jan. 5, Imaad and his mother, Um...
Cryptome.org, the indispensable website for those who want to penetrate the U.S. government's veil of secrecy, has gotten its hot little hands on a series of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) daily morning briefs, a weird mixture of the comical ... "8. (FOUO)...
