Indict Ledeen

Roger L. Simon has a problem with my call for Fitzgerald to indict Michael "P-2" Ledeen as a conspirator in the forging of the Niger uranium documents. He complains in a post called, "Reactionaries on Parade (Left Wing Dvision [sic])": "Without any evidence other than...

read more

Another Scripted PR Stunt

The Bush crew has done it again (remember the plastic turkey on Thanksgiving?): (via Think Progress)Earlier today, President Bush held an "impromptu" public teleconference with a group of U.S. soldiers based in Tikrit, Iraq. Pentagon communications aide Allison Barber...

read more

So, who’s left on the right?

Boy, the liberventionists sure picked a great time to become conservatives. Howard Fineman at MSNBC says the "conservative coalition" has had it. Wouldn't that be great? The oddball grouping of fundamentalist crazies, the warfare mercantilists, fiscal conservatives...

read more

Welcome Charles Pena!

Hey, Everybody! Check out Antiwar.com's new regular writer Charles Pena. He is just the kind of heavy hitter we like to have around here: a senior fellow with the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, an adviser to the Straus Military Reform Project and an analyst...

read more

Hey, Patrick Fitzgerald!

You're going to indict Michael Ledeen and his CIA buddies for forging those Niger uranium documents, right? As quoted in the Wikipedia entry for Yellowcake forgery:In an interview on July 26, 2005, Cannistraro's business partner and columnist for the "American...

read more

Bring the IRR Home Now!

It's been a while since I've seen some press about the Individual Ready Reserve in Iraq (oh, here's some), but Saturday night I met a young lady who's father was called up to go kill people 20 years after being discharged from the army. He is opposed to the war, and...

read more

The Post Gets Over its Bravery

Strange, but for some reason, today the Washington Post decided to run the Larry Franklin plea deal story on page B-1 - the Metro section. According to the great libertarian journalist Jim Bovard, in today's Maryland edition, It is below the fold, next to an article...

read more

The Straussians and Their Consequences

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Anne Norton about her book, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, and with professor Juan Cole about the situation in Basra and the Iraqi constitution. Update: Antiwar.com correspondent Debbie...

read more

Rockwell and Prather

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show (6-8 pm eastern), I'll be talking with Lew Rockwell from the Mises Intitute about economics, Katrina and the war. In the second hour, I'll be talking again with Antiwar.com's own Gordon Prather about Iran and North Korea. Update:...

read more