Follow Up to DC Column: Beating the Same Dead Horse

The piece I wrote for the Daily Caller was in response to a piece by Jamie Weinstein, the senior editor there, in which Weinstein denies aggressive US foreign policy had anything to do with the motivations behind 9/11. I relished in an evidence-based response, but to...

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Starve the Beasts of War

The big-money rent-seekers in the military industrial complex have been lobbying hard against cuts to the defense budgets. The so-called "super-committee" - the group of representatives tasked with deciding where to cut - have been the target for that lobbying....

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Chertoff Lies About Rendition Torture

In a recent interview on Hardtalk, former Secretary of Homeland Security (and co-author of the PATRIOT Act) Michael Chertoff was asked about extraordinary rendition and why the US government sent captured detainees to other countries known for widespread torture. Not...

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Libya: More Bombing Needed?

At least the U.S. military and other NATO air forces have already had lots of practice hammering this country. Who could have ever foreseen that the Islamist radicals would take over after the U.S. helped topple the country's dictator? Today's New York Times:...

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Secrecy Kills

By Coleen Rowley (with editing assistance from Hugh Iglarsh, writer/editor/citizen based in Chicago) These two words sum up well the op-ed I co-wrote with Bogdan Dzakovic before the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks last year, a shortened version of...

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Rebels Issue Familiar Deadline to Libyan Civilians

The contradictions and the lies that are the foundation for the intervention in Libya are so numerous it's hard to keep track, and can be even harder to write about over and over and over again. But today's headlines gave me another opportunity... September 14,...

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’60s Antiwar Leader Carl Oglesby, RIP

I was sad to read this morning of the death of Carl Oglesby, one of the great leaders of the early Vietnam antiwar movement. Oglesby was a leader and one-time president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). SDS was the leading antiwar students group in the 1960s...

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Debunking Rachel Maddow

The Obama cult is going on the offensive, on the theory that the best defense is a good offense, the Obama cult is going on the attack – launching a special web site, and a twitter feed, attackwatch.com, which is devoted to refuting the “smears” being repeated by the...

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