Oh, those Eye-talians!

This morning I went to my favorite website -- I need humor in the early hours, and David Horowitz's Frontpage never fails to deliver, albeit unintentionally -- and was definitely not disappointed by the screaming headline above David Horowitz's "blog": "Saddam Hussein...

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Hamm-handed

The idea that the U.S. would ever engage in covert activities to bring down a government is so inconceivable to Nathan Hamm, of "registan.net," that he's shocked -- shocked! -- that anybody would take the memo purportedly by U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Stephen Young...

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Giuliana Sgrena – shot from behind?

Naomi Klein has interviewed Giuliana Sgrena in Rome. The revelations in this Democracy Now interview of Klein significantly challenge the stories we've heard thus far in the press:One of the things that we keep hearing is that she was fired on on the road to the...

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An Israeli Refuser visits the US Congress

Brad Brooks-Rubin writes about visiting the U.S. Congress with Israeli refuser Yonatan Shapira on Andrew Schamess's blog Semitism.net. The American press has clearly found this a compelling story, which probably explains why the American public is so well-informed on...

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Herbert Spencer Was Right

I note that Antiwar.com has been under attack, lately, from the more whacked-out wing of the ostensibly "conservative" movement, and under that general rubric I have to include the ravings of one Tom Palmer, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, who...

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Persuasive Case the Draft Is Coming

I have been skeptical about the likelihood of a military draft in the near future, but I am starting to think it is inevitable. In the Washington Monthly, Phillip Carter and Paul Glastris give a very persuasive case for the draft, given a commitment to an...

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‘Discovering the Network’

The little libelers over at "Discover the network" – David Horowitz’s hilariously inept datatbase of subversion – are demanding that I publish my "anti-Al Qaeda bona fides" – at least that’s how one Jacob Laksin puts it. Obviously unacquainted with...

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