It's Monday and no one's attacked Iran yet, so that means its time for hysterical headlines. Today's comes courtesy of the Associated Press and the redoubtable George Jahn, who never met a non-story with the word Iran in it that he couldn't turn into a countdown to...
The Obama Administration is creating yet more new computer viruses, according to growing evidence collected by major anti-virus makers. Those viruses start out attacking sites in the Middle East but remember, they don't stay that way. The Stuxnet Worm started out...
Julian Assange's successful bid for asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and the British threats to raid the embassy bring about some interesting questions about the history of being granted asylum inside an embassy. The 1961 Vienna Convention theoretically...
Time for an embarrassing confession. Even though it's been out for months, and even though it's the first book I ever contributed content to, I had never read Why Peace. I mean not all the way through. I'd read my essay and a few others of people I knew, but its a...
"Two Named in Iran Uranium Export Scheme" That was the headline at the Washington Times, leading the person who didn't read any further to believe Iran was involved in an export scheme for uranium. Others termed it a "nuclear smuggling case," or a "nuclear export...
Following up on yesterday's news that prisoners were injected with "mind altering drugs" before interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, the US is denying the report, kind of. See, it wasn't drugs, it was "medication." All the rest of the stuff appears to have been true....
With apologies to Don McLean: A new video from LiveLeaks shows an AH64 Apache attack helicopter targeting farmers in the Wardak Province, Afghanistan while they were planting poppy seeds. The pilot cheerfully sings a little tune after firing a Hellfire missile at...
I've been writing here for over eight years, and every time I get into a comfortable little zone where I think I've heard every piece of nonsense the war loons can throw at us they manage to surprise with both their unending thirst for blood and treasure and the sheer...
An odd story is emerging today, revealing that at least some Apple Stores are refusing to sell products to ethnically Persian people and claiming it is because of the US embargo on Iran. The reports begin in Georgia, where a 19-year-old US citizen was barred from...
The humble one rupee coin, worth around the same as a US one cent coin, isn't exactly big money in Pakistan. But a mania has spread across the country, apparently originating in Makran last week, which has everyone, including the nation's central bank, taking notice....
