Sarah Palin will not run for president in 2012. Though Andrew Sullivan can be expected to persist in his quest to deploy U.N. inspectors to Palin's uterus, the nation's less-cracked Obamatons will have to build a new uber-bogeyman to juxtapose with the Lightworker....
“I Lost My Eyes” – Omar Khadr Interrogations at Guantanamo Bay
From the Guardian, a video of a Gitmo interrogation: At the time of this interrogation in Guantánamo Bay, February 2003, the boy, Omar Khadr, a Canadian national, was barely 16, yet he had already been in military custody for seven months. Now 25, he remains in the US...
Panetta Meets With Egypt Military Rulers
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's visit to Egyptian military rulers on Tuesday was yet another illustration of the close military ties between the two countries, and the leverage the US is still exercising over the ruling council. His stated reasons for going were to...
Mr. Eggcorn Tows the Lion on Blowback
Tibor Machan: When he was recently booed by a lot of the audience in Tampa, Florida, for invoking the infamous blow-back doctrine, some of Representative and Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s defenders blamed those who did the booing. Yet at least one...
Pew Bias? Poll says 6 in 10 vets have ‘isolationist inclinations’
I originally posted this today at The American Conservative blog, @TAC Buried in an amazing poll released by the Pew Research Center today that says 1 in 3 post-9/11 veterans believe the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were ‘not worth fighting,’ is an assertion that 6 in 10...
Veterans for Peace Denounces Obama’s Assassination Policy
From Veterans for Peace: As of September 29, 2011, we are only one step away from a government where the top official can kill anybody, anywhere, any time he feels it necessary – and do it in complete secret. With last week’s lawless killings of two U.S. citizens...
Awlaki’s Rights Would Have Got in the Way of His Prosecution
I almost pity the Washington Times for so naively publishing the truth, yet having no idea what it means. Herein it is reported that Awlaki would have been eligible for too many rights if placed on trial...thus the decision for quick, easy, hassle-free murder. Taking...
Enforcing Hypocrite Hegemony: Sanctions Are Illegitimate *And* Don’t Work
Stewart Levey and Christy Clark have a recent piece in Foreign Policy arguing that (1) targeted, punitive economic sanctions imposed on so-called rogue states by the US and the UN Security Council are effective and (2) the US and the UN should do more to enforce...
Enemy of the Month
And the award goes to...Pakistan! Escalating tensions between the US and Pakistan have only been getting worse. As Pepe Escobar notes, this "row"--as it is called by the mainstream media--has the potential to deteriorate quickly into one hot mess: Expect a festival of...
Barbarous Italians Unimprison, Nonassassinate Possible Criminal
Breaking news in a case that I have diligently ignored for years: Italian Court Overturns Knox Conviction PERUGIA, Italy—An Italian appeals court on Monday acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, a stunning turnaround in Ms. Knox's yearslong...


