The "why the heck is Nancy Pelosi voting for the war" rally was great: thanks to United for Peace and Justice (Bay Area chapter) for making it possible. It was gratifying to see some of my readers there: they came up and introduced themselves, and I'm glad I could be...
The sickening manipulation of ethnic and religious passions by the War Party is nowhere more dramatically demonstrated than in this "rapid response alert" sent out by someone in the office of the Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco, the Peninsula ,...
Just got back from the antiwar march in San Francisco: easily 20,000 people out in the streets. I'll have more about it in my Monday column, but I just wanted to let you know about an event I found out about at the rally. "Code Pink," the antiwar group famous for...
A few months ago, Mark Brady, over at the Liberty and Power blog, noted that the libertarian Cato Institute had not published or posted anything about the Iraq war since the beginning of the year. Hmmmmm, I thought: an ill wind blows. It wasn’t a good sign for the...
The Battle of Basra, where British troops "rescued" two out-of-uniform British soldiers who'd gotten into a contretemps with Iraqi police, gets more fascinating by the moment. A news item put out by China's Xinhua News Agency's contains the following fascinating...
Writing on his famous weblog, Andrew Sullivan has always tried to balance his various manias -- the wonders of homosexuality, the glories of war -- so that one didn't necessarily overshadow the other. Now, however, he's shown us where his priorities are with this blog...
I see that Arianna Huffington has finally discovered the John Bolton -Plame scandal connection. Of course, Antiwar.com's readers were in on this waaaay back in July: "After the War Party met in solemn conclave, and the command went out from Cheney: 'Bring me the head...
In a move that is sure to send fissures through the Democratic party "leadership," antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan is squaring off against Hillary Clinton: "Sheehan isn’t stopping her critique with Bush. On the contrary, she has begun to set her sights on Congress and...
Cindy Sheehan spoke to about 150 people in Union Square today -- but her talk was cut short when a NYPD goon squad charged into the crowd, yanked her off the stage, and pulled the plug on the rally. Whole story here. It isn't clear if she was arrested or not: this...
Galloway the Great versus Christopher "Poppinjay" Hitchens: moderated by Amy Goodman, whose "Democracy Now" has the only video and audio links that I can access. Check it out. UPDATE: Apparently, the debate is being delayed because they're running everyone in the...
