Those who have believed that the departure of Dubya from the oval office will mean that Israeli politicians will no longer be able to call up American presidents and tell them what to do should think twice. The story of General Anthony Zinni’s aborted appointment as...
Thursday is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln. I would be perplexed by the Lincoln cult if I thought the prime Lincoln idolizers gave a damn about individual liberty. Lincoln is lionized not because he saved self-government, but primarily because he sanctified...
Michael Ledeen, who 25 months ago announced to the world that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had died — he got this from such an exclusive source that not even Amir Taheri, another neo-con fantasist, could confirm or deny the story — once again...
Two senior British judges accused the U.S. of threatening to stop sharing intelligence with Britain if the British Government released details of the extraordinary rendition of British citizen, Binyam Mohamed. Why? Perhaps this explains it:...
As he makes clear in this post, The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan has finally come to the conclusion that the democracy claptrap that neo-conservatives have spouted since 9/11 has been a facade for their core foreign-policy worldview with Israel at its heart. “I took...
As pointed out in this post by Rasmus Christian Elling of the University of Copenhagen, the U.S. Treasury – notably Stuart Levey, whose zeal in trying to make it difficult for Iranian banking interests to do business outside their borders has been widely remarked...
On PBS tonight, NOVA is presenting "The Spy Factory," based on James Bamford's excellent book, The Shadow Factory. PBS says the NOVA program: chronicles the NSA's role in eavesdropping both before and after 9/11. Drawing on dozens of interviews with agency insiders...
The bottom of your shoe, not the fish. The fantastic trend of protesters showing their disdain for dictators and other official criminals by tossing a shoe (or two) at them continues in Britain, as an as-yet unidentified "European" man hurls his footwear at Chinese PM...
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says -- and he should know -- there is no difference between the policy of "absolute support" for Israel between Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Obama's own spokesman Robert Gibbs affirmed that, as under Bush, "all options remain on...
This might just be the Miami in me (Castro is dead...now! ...nnnnow! ...nnnnnnnow!), but Zimbabwe suddenly nixing price controls and allowing foreign currency to be exchanged freely, with mea culpa from the finance minister and no comment from the 85-year-old dictator...
