On Friday it was reported that Mohamed Dheere was appointed as the new mayor of Mogadishu by the US-backed Somali government. What's interesting about this is that just last year, when the US decided to start funding warlords to pick fights with the Islamic Courts,...
The “war on terrorism†as a project of the “visible yet sinister group†known as the neoconservatives — that’s the theme of this brilliant and beautiful video: Andrew Sullivan, who supposedly has had a turnaround on the war, calls this “Nazi-like.â€...
Via Laura Rozen: "The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, and the Vice Chairman, Senator Kit Bond, announced today that the Committee has adopted its Phase II report on prewar intelligence assessments about...
The American style of colonialism is taking shape, and what seems to be developing is a certain peevish paternalism, colored with vivid shades of condescension. The BBC reports this highlight from Dick Cheney's Baghdad trip: "The vice-president also held talks with...
Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield gave the esteemed Jefferson lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities last night in Washington. According to the NEH website, "The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities recognizes an individual who has made significant...
Navy Building Up Near Persian Gulf: Next war awaits pretext
Deployed and Betrayed: Soldiers petition Congress to end the war
Maybe I should've held onto my Sunday blog posting about coalition forces killing Afghan civilians for a few days. If I had: I could've pointed this out as well. So, fresh off a series of airstrikes that killed scores of civilians last week, fresh off promises of...
Scott may be on to something when he points out the "Fort Dix Six" were caught in an FBI entrapment scheme. But I have an easier time believing the government line (yeah, I know, I said it) considering that four of them are ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. I hear at...
I don't believe much in the way of assertions from the Department of Justice, but somehow this part of the LA Times coverage of the Ft. Dix "terrorist plot" rings true to me: "A paid FBI informant was able to infiltrate the group, and began taping many conversations...
