The Guardian, which was supposedly live-blogging Edward Snowden's departure from Moscow and his flight to Cuba, is reporting the whistle-blowing computer whiz is not on the plane -- much to the dismay of a sizeable contingent of reporters, who hurriedly booked seats...
The South China Morning Post is reporting: "Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong and is due to arrive in Moscow by this evening, the South China Morning Post can confirm. "The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, who was last known to be hiding in Hong Kong,...
Randolph Bourne entered this world, on this day 122 years ago, the victim of a mishap caused by someone who didn’t know how to use forceps: his face was badly deformed for life. Stacking the deck against him even higher, at age 8 he came down with tuberculosis, one...
The Boston Police Department has announced -- via Twitter -- that three more suspects have been taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombing case. "Details to follow...." The Boston Globe describes the three as college students. Are two of them these guys?...
There have been a number of news accounts of Tamerlan’s "mentor," a major influence on his path to jihad: the Uncle, Ruslan, has said his name is "Misha," and that he is an Armenian convert to Islam living in the Boston area, balding, with reddish hair, middle-aged...
I see my colleague John Glaser has taken to the hustings to once again express his skepticism of All Things Hagel. He's convinced that our boy Chuck has "flipped and flopped like a fish out of water" in response to the Other Chuck's (Chuck Schumer, that is)...
I have gotten so many letters about our campaign to fight the smear campaign against Chuck Hagel that I can’t possibly respond to them individually, and so I’m taking to the Antiwar.com blog to answer and to give our readers and supporters an update. It is now Day...
The Israel lobby’s smear campaign against Chuck Hagel is an absolute outrage: they are hurling every mudball they can get their hands on at him, and of course the main charge is “anti-Semitism” – because he wont’ kowtow to the Lobby and proudly declares that, while he...
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: "President Barack Obama has chosen Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to be the next secretary of state, a source has told Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed.His replacement as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be Sen....
How quickly did the neocons stick the shiv in their candidate's back? Minutes after Fox News called the election for Obama, they hauled out Charles Krauthammer, who opined that Romney "is a northeastern liberal" -- a fact he had withheld from Fox News viewers until...
