A newly-released Pentagon-funded study entitled “Educing Information†examines the “concerns about recent U.S. interrogation activities, subsequent investigations, and the efficacy of contemporary tactics, techniques, and procedures.†Surprise, surprise: the...
This article, "The Iraq Gamble: At the pundits' table, the losing bet still takes the pot," by Jebadiah Reed, in Radar, is a hoot -- if you like your humor a darker shade of black. Reed discusses the way-off-the-mark predictions and prognostications proffered by...
. Vietnam "War" Defense Sec. Robert McNamara, The Fog of War [youtube]Bl8wpsGooOo[/youtube] 'Mr. McNamara, you must never have read a history book!' . Maj. Gen. John Batiste, retiring head of "The Big Red One" [youtube]LVpGzCVQz4U[/youtube] 'There was no surprise with...
Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons, and a former writer for National Review, recants: As President Bush marched the country to war with Iraq, even some voices on the Right warned that this was a fool's errand. I dismissed them angrily. I thought them unpatriotic. But...
Antiwar Radio: Sebastian Junger The first guest on Antiwar Radio for January 15, 2007 is Sebastian Junger of Vanity Fair about the Ijaw tribesmen who are causing trouble for the oil companies operating in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. Mp3 here. Comments welcome at...
Antiwar Radio: Becky Akers The second guest on Antiwar Radio for Monday, January 15, 2007 is Becky Akers from LewRockwell.com on the subject of the NYPD's entrapment and conviction on terrorism charges of a young New Yorker named Shahawar Matin Siraj and the...
Antiwar.com contributor Ann Berg is part of a two person art show - From Sham To Shame - for the Chicago Artists' Coalition that will feature several large collage pieces dealing with the trillion dollar GWOT industry and the Iraq war: giant images of x-rayed bodies...
Antiwar Radio: Justin Raimondo Antiwar Radio for January 11, 2007: Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo on Bush's speech and the further disaster it portends. Mp3 here. Comments welcome at Stress.
The news is good -- for once. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the libertarian congressman whose dedication to principle is one of the wonders of the world, is running for the GOP presidential nomination (hat tip: Lew Rockwell). At last -- a Republican who opposes our...
According to NPR correspondent Ivan Watson, Kurdish forces prevented three American humvees from crossing into another part of town. A Kurdish guard told him that after an hour and a half standoff, weapons cocked, four blackhawks came to evacuate some of the US...
