While there was nothing all that new in the President's speech on the Middle East, most of the discussion has been centered around the Israeli reaction, rather than the content of Obama's ten-page peroration. In tandem with the usual pledges to keep borrowing money...
The flap over IMF honcho Dominique Strauss-Kahn's apparent rape of a hotel maid has the chattering classes nattering a mile a minute, and I've so far resisted the temptation to comment, but what's interesting is who's defending DSK. Leading the charge: Bernard...
In an appearance on Greg Gutfeld's "Red Eye" late night Fox News panoply of buffoons, neocon Godfather Bill Kristol exulted in President Barack Obama's conversion to the "democracy"-promotion foreign policy championed by the Bush administration, reports the Daily...
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in The Atlantic: "I was ... taken aback when I read a statement from Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday that he 'expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly...
Alan Bock, editorial writer and opion page editor at the Orange County Register's editorial page, and a longtime columnist for Antiwar.com -- died today, shortly after entering a hospice. He was 67. Alan was the author of four books: Ecology Action Guide (1970), The...
Our good friend Alan Bock, a senior editorial writer and former editorial page editor for the Orange County Register. and a regular columnist for Antiwar.com, has entered a hospice: he has been ill with cancer for some time. Our prayers go out to him and his wife...
Even before we knew the details surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, his demise was being hailed as the “end of an era.” The Global War on Terrorism, which we’ve been fighting for the last decade in several theaters simultaneously, has been defined in terms of...
Nicholas Kristoff declares that "a humanitarian catastrophe has been averted for now," and Dennis Ross claims 100,000 lives were saved by US intervention in Libya. Does any of this sound familiar? It's precisely what the advocates of the bank bailout did. They came to...
As the Japanese desperately try to cool down two overheated nuclear reactors, damaged in the massive earthquake, Nippon's nuclear curse rises like a ghost from the grave, haunting that brave nation like a demon out of hell. It is a demon seed of the war god, Satan's...
Some of you may have noticed that we have resumed our relationship with Amazon.com. The reason is simple: it was dumb to boycott just Amazon when practically every banking institution and every hosting service in the country was caving in to pressure to refuse...
