A very interesting interview with Scott Horton. Yes, Scott Horton of Antiwar.com and Antiwar Radio, not Scott Horton of Harper's (who has an article linked on our site today). Check it out.

Today the Senate passed Bush's war funding request by an overwhelming vote of 92-3. Quite a coincidence about the five who didn't vote: they are all running for President. That's right: the five absentions were Biden (D-DE), Clinton (D-NY), Dodd (D-CT), McCain (R-AZ),...

The UK Daily Mail on Sunday reports that British MPs were surprised to hear a visiting Pentagon official declare: "I hate all Iranians." Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, made the comments this month to...

As we move closer to confronting Iran for all sorts of reasons, including their President's slight stature, members of Congress from both parties couldn't wait to pile more sanctions on the people of Iran and anyone who wants to trade with them. Today the US House...

Georgie Anne Geyer writes today about Jon Basil Utley's journey to find the fate of his father who disappeared into the Soviet gulag. Jon's mother, Freda Utley, was a prominent American Communist in the 1920s. She fell in love with a brilliant Russian Jewish...

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...

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....

Scott Adams really gets it! Thanks to Lew Rockwell.

IraqSlogger has gotten ahold of a "sensitive" but unclassified US report about corruption in the Iraqi government. IraqSlogger reports that the document was prepared by the US embassy in Baghdad and based on the work of Iraq's Commission for Public Integrity. They say...

According to the US and Israel, it does. In a rare vote, the UN General Assembly passed a UN atomic watchdog resolution calling on all Middle East nations to renounce atomic weapons. Since the US and the West have been pushing to stop nuclear proliferation in the...