Maliki to Speak at CFR, Remarks Secret

Last week, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) announced an upcoming Q&A session with Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki. IraqSlogger reports that today the CFR announced that, at Maliki's request, his comments cannot be reported by any media or repeated by any participant...

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Like, Literally, Dude

Via Jonathan Schwarz: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said he thought Columbia's invitation to Ahmadinejad was a mistake "because he comes literally with blood on his hands." Click here to read Orwell's thoughts on the debasement of language in the service of...

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Save It for the Cross-Burning, Adolf

After reading the first chapter of Mearsheimer and Walt's The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, I can say one thing with absolute certainty: These guys are major-league anti-Semites. What I can't understand is how such ardent neo-Nazis were able to hold their...

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Justin Raimondo on the Cover!

A few months ago I attended a conference in Las Vegas and saw copies of Liberty Watch magazine for the first time. I was impressed. I had seen their online articles linked from various libertarian websites, but I had no idea how well-produced the print magazine is....

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Is Steve Clemons Right? — Will Bush Bomb Iran?

Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service's Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. Steve Clemons’ article this week in Salon, “Why Bush won’t attack Iran,” offers, I think, a helpful corrective to what has been the...

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