Nikolas K. Gvosdek, editor of The National Interest and a senior fellow at the Nixon Center, points out in the Washington Realist that Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Croatia and Macedonia are the recent recipients of billions in largesse from the U.S. Congress, with the...
At last, the Democrats are moving on the let's-investigate-how-they-lied-us-into-war front, with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) homing in on what Waxman describes as a "fabricated claim that Iraq sought uranium in Niger." Waxman's Government Oversight Committee has...
I see America's Mussolini Mayor is giving us a preview of the Republican strategy in 2008: "Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001. But if a Republican is...
I have noted the growing convergence of left and right on various issues, from the war in Iraq to the fight in defense of civil liberties on the home front, and here’s another proposition that is a part of this developing left-right consensus: the rise of Jonah...
It seems to me that John McCain's "bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" outburst is his very own "Dean Scream," if you know what I mean: Is someone who is this cavalier about going to war really fit to be President? After his musical interlude, McCain declared that, after...
Don't miss this one: A Dutch documentary (in English) on "Portrait of a Great Taboo: The Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States," featuring John J. Mearsheimer, Tony Judt, Michael Massing, Larry Wilkerson (!), Daniel Levy, and Richard Perle pretending to be...
It was only a matter of time before the World War IV crowd started in on the Virginia Tech massacre: one could hear an audible sigh of disappointment coming from the neocon precincts of the blogosphere as the news came across the wire that the killer was South Korean....
Brian Doherty is out hawking his new book Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the American Libertarian Movement. He'll be reading from it, talking about it, signing it etc. at Cody's in Berkeley this Sunday, April 15, at 4 pm. That's 4 in the afternoon,...
Writing on the Reason magazine website, neocon Michael Young bemoans the lack of an American equivalent of Le Canard Enchaine: "You have to wonder why a similar national publication doesn't exist in the U.S. The popularity of The Onion, or the fact that a magazine...
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