Clifford May, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies -- a neocon nest explored in an excellent 2003 piece by Dan McCarthy in The American Conservative -- opines that the Ethiopians, currently fighting and supposedly beating "Islamist" militias in...
In response to today's column, a reader writes: Wow... I was just saying that I liked the fact that Obama is anti-war. Guess I was wrong. I believe of all the people who have been mentioned in the news as possible '08 candidates... that he is the least pro war next to...
I didn't know I had a Wikipedia entry until about a year ago. I discovered it by googling my name -- a vice that I'm sure most writers indulge in, some more than others. I tried to abstain, or, at least, not indulge too often, but the temptation to go back and see how...
This just in: "In a surprise twist in the debate over Iraq, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops as part of a stepped up effort to “dismantle the...
Amid all the hysteria emanating from the British tabloid press (or do I repeat myself?) over l'affaire Litvinenko, the facts are not fitting the original narrative of a KGB hit against a heroic "human rights" crusader. UPI reports the latest in this developing...
Another Russian "dissident" gets sick, and guess who is blamed. As I said in my column the other day, Russia is getting the same treatment these days as Syria, a bona fide member of the "axis of evil." A Lebanese taxi driver put it this way: "'It's very clear,' said...
The announced resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is hardly a recognition of the election results. The reason is that the War Party has been calling for his resignation for not putting more troops in Iraq. Remember, neocon Bill Kristol was among the first...
Matt Yglesias on Marty Peretz's new blog: "Martin Peretz surveys the violence in Iraq, and discerns the cause -- the country turns out to be full of Muslims." Â
As aspiring Georgian dictator Mikheil Saakashvili unleashes a wave of repression aimed at opposition parties, arrests their leaders on trumped-up charges of "spying," cracks down on the independent media, tortures his political opponents and other prisoners held in...
The U.S. has recently raised the possibility of a long-planned embargo of North Korea, but the Chinese and the Russians are against it, and probably won't vote for it in the UN Security Council. However, I have it from a very good on-the-scene source that the U.S....
