Writing in 1968, Will Durant, in his The Lessons of History, says that "in the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war." And then this gem: "When the states of Europe freed themselves from papal overlordship and protection, each state encouraged...
Josh Marshall posts:Someone was willing to say it: Chalabi deserves a subpoena, not photo-ops with administration bigwigs. See Rep. Miller's (D-CA) speech on the floor of the House just yesterday.Yeah, well, I said it first.
An interesting torture story developing today. From publius:According to Drudge (always a shaky way to start), Frist and Hastert are going to announce an investigation not into our mini-gulag in Eastern Europe, but into the leak of the black sites to the Post. This is...
Michael Ledeen is whining about reports that supposedly accuse him of forging the fake Niger documents. There's just one problem, though: no one that I have read on the subject is making any such accusation. The La Repubblica series by Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe...
We do not torture...George W. Bush We don’t do torture....Porter Goss I guess it depends on the meaning of "we." A DEADLY INTERROGATION by JANE MAYER Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?
Wonder what the heck is going on in Paris, with all the rioting? Skip the bigots and read lenin. Micah Holmquist sends us linkage for the NYT bogus intelligence story: "You can read the actual document provided to the New York Times via Carl Levin's webpage." Micah on...
Douglas Jehl's revelations in the New York Times today:A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda...
The argument over whether the various nations of North and South America should be forced together under the auspices of global capitalism or global socialism came to an ugly head today at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina as anti-capitalist...
Laura Rozen's "war and piece" weblog is one of my favorite stops on the internet: that's because she is incredibly well-informed and her interests roughly approximate my own. And she's been all over the Niger uranium forgery story. However, I must take issue with her...
A report from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on the latest developments in the AIPAC spy case notes that "defense sources say they have reason to believe that the defendants’ relationship with a New York Times reporter might have been monitored." Could this possibly...
