Secrets & Lies

Robert Stinnett on the continuing Pearl Harbor coverup. Don't look for any of this information tomorrow on the History Channel. And don't expect to know the full story on the WTC attacks by September 11, 2063.

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How to Blog Like the Big Boys

Saddam's former translator gives us another justification for the war: ‘He wrote in a hurry. It was as if he had all these ideas he just wanted to get out and his formal pronouncements weren’t enough.’ To express even the simplest ideas, Saddam used a convoluted style...

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Miscellaneous

*Two great articles to be read in tandem: David Isenberg on the militarization of civil society, and historian Edmund Morgan on Gore Vidal's America. Includes this definition of "democracy" from Vidal: [A] word that appears nowhere in the American Constitution, or,...

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When They Came for the Genocide-Promoters…

Promoting genocide through mass media is suddenly a war crime. As a free-speech extremist, I'm none too keen on this, so I'll go ahead and warn Ben Shapiro (bitchin' new photo, Ben), Ann Coulter, and Rich Lowry to hire an attorney. Maybe Alan Dershowitz?

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Lay Off the Crackpot

Laurie Mylroie, darling of National Review and its sorority sister, The American Spectator, officially stands corrected. Of course, Antiwar.com has been warning you about this moonbeam for two years now.

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John Wayne and Jane Addams

That's the yin-yang of U.S. imperialism David Brooks celebrates in this asinine op-ed. Tell us more of this schizophrenic hermaphrodite and what it's doing in Iraq, oh Oracle of Official Conservatism: [Capt. John Prior] was inside a gas station when a commotion...

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Descartes with an M-16

An American soldier explains his concern for Iraqi "hearts and minds" to a Western journalist: I asked my escort Specialist Jack Craig, a military policeman from Minnesota, how he correlated the "strike first" directive with the US military's current policy of...

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Oh, Jesus

Armstrong Williams, noted chronicler of born-again Zionism, risks provoking the ire of Abe Foxman: Our close relationship with Israel also presents a rapid response option. During Desert Storm, Israeli forces prevented Saddam's troops from invading Saudi Arabia and...

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