“Freedom” in Ukraine

If we peel back the outer "democratic" skin of Ukraine's much-touted "Orange Revolution," we find the same old same old: the newly-installed regime of Viktor Yushchenko is pulling the license of independent television station NTN to expand beyond the Kiev area. NTN...

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Israeli Spy Scandal: Bloggers in the Dock?

Here it's been close to a week since Israeli spy and former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin was nabbed by the feds, and still not a peep out of the right-wing of the blogosphere. And these are the same people who want to set up their own news service? Well, I've got a...

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Let the Purge Begin, Part II

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Jaafar pulls out one of the dozens of files piled on his desk and leafs through evidence that a Finance Ministry employee once served in Saddam Hussein's notorious intelligence agency. Snapping the file shut, he pronounces his verdict: "This...

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Thanks!

Thanks to James Wolcott, over at Vanity Fair, for the plug about our fundraiser -- I have a taste for the kind of acerbic wit on display at his blog and I check it out daily. Also, thanks to Wally Conger over at Out of Step (a great name, btw): I didn't know we had...

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Look Who’s Talking!

President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia on the Yalta agreement, as recently repudiated by George W. Bush: "Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally...

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How to Spot a Militarist

He sneers at peaceful free enterprise (or the study thereof) while bellowing about the glories of the state – especially those segments of it most prone to snapping bones and spilling blood.

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“Intelligence” leads Marines into a trap?

This report of a botched raid is so bizarre that I had to read it repeatedly while trying to piece together the information it contains.  So, let's see.  We read that, operating on the theory that "foreign fighters" are "flowing into...

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