Check out my latest post on the Huffington Post blog: it's about "fragging," a practice much in evidence during the Vietnam era when hundreds of American military officers were killed by their own soldiers -- and, no, we aren't talking about "friendly fire" here....
Wow! I've made the big-time! The Huffington Post has asked me to blog for them -- and here's my first contribution. There I am, right alongside Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Catharine Crier, Gary Hart, Jann Wenner, Karen Finley (!), Erica Jong, Paul Krassner, my old...
If neoconservatism is a biographical creed, denoting someone who has evolved from some variant of Leninism or Marxism into a supporter of George W. Bush's foreign policy of American global military dominance, then President Meles Zenawi certainly fits the bill. A...
Remember all those cool-looking kids calling for "democracy" and waving orange banners at that giant rock concert that styled itself Ukraine's "Orange Revolution"? No one but us "democrats" here -- right? Wrong. John Laughland, among others, warned us about the...
As if the slaughter unleashed by Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov, a staunch American ally in the "war on terrorism," wasn't enough, another pro-U.S. commie dictator, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, is mowing down protestors in the streets: 22 dead, so far, dozens wounded, and...
Natan Sharansky, author of The Case for Democracy -- which President Bush has said he read with admiration -- certainly can't be accused of consistency. When confronted by Pat Buchanan on the kind of "democracy" he envisions for the Palestinians, Sharansky balked:...
Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, relates this exchange with Alexander "I'm in charge here" Haig during the Watergate imbroglio: "It was late in the evening on May 16, 1973, and I was in the Washington bureau of the Times, immersed in yet another story about...
The Israel National News Service reports that the Mossad is in the midst of an internal debate over what to name the spy agency's new main building: The Director, Meir Dagan, wants to honor Mossad agent Eli Cohen -- hanged by the Syrians in 1965 -- but others are...
Christopher Hitchens, the ex-Trotskyist poppinjay and blathering drunk who has made a second career out of hailing the Bush Doctrine, has a very talented and quite rational brother, and Peter Hitchens seems to have his sibling's number down cold. At a recent event...
The BBC reports that at a demonstration sponsored by the Uzbek government in support of Supreme Leader Islam Karimov, one of the spear-carriers sported a placard emblazoned with this slogan: "Human rights activists are enemies of the motherland."
