Arguments both for and against, say the war in Iraq, or in Afghanistan, tend to get clouded by whatever tangential political vocabulary is popular in any given week or month (surgical determinations of troops levels, robustness of U.S.-trained security forces,...
Der Spiegel has an account of the ideological roots and political networks from which Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivek was influenced: Such blogs provide a window into a strange scene: pro-Western, exceedingly pro-American and friendly to Israel -- but extremely...
It's now almost two months since the sternest congressional resolution against Obama's war in Libya and against the pathetic legal argument employed to circumvent the War Powers Resolution failed, losing out to John Boehner's resolution asking Obama to pretty please...
Jesse Walker has some solid reading recommendations here.
On Friday, I included The Atlantic in a list of sources that "ran with the unsubstantiated Muslim-terrorist angle" immediately after the attacks in Norway. I was referring to a they-hate-us-for-our-freedoms piece about an alleged 2010 plot by three Muslims against...
David Sanger carries on Walter Duranty, Judith Miller and Michael Gordon's lying legacy at the New York Times. In his new piece, co-written with William J. Broad, Sanger spends eleven-hundred words speculating and propagandizing about what it might meant that an...
Where's old Doc Prather when we need him? George Jahn, the David Sanger of the Associated Press, has a scary new piece out. And though the story seems to have gotten plenty of attention with it's big headline "Iran Prez Said Pushing for Nukes," on further inspection...
Before Norwegian authorities arrested a sole, Norwegian suspect in today's murders, America's professional bullshitters stroked themselves into quite the, er, terrection, if you will. A sampling: Jennifer Rubin: This is a sobering reminder for those who think it’s too...
There has been a disastrous explosion outside a government building in the Norwegian city of Oslo. At least one explosion was a car bomb. Responsibility for the apparent attack has not been confirmed, but here are some speculations: Earlier this month, a Norwegian...
Now that America will soon start its "withdrawal" of troops from Afghanistan, the brainiacs over at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, have developed Nexus 7, which, "aims to tap that data ["exabytes" collected by American troops during the war]...
