Everyone knows that the Israelis are pressing hard for the Obama administration to set a a relatively short-term deadline for progress in its prospective diplomatic engagement with Iran to bear fruit, after which it would move to tighten sanctions, hopefully in...
Check out this great Esquire article about the torture occupation of Iraq and new Afghan boss McChrystal's role. How'd I miss this in '06? It was a point of pride that the Red Cross would never be allowed in the door, Jeff says. This is important because it defied the...
One wonders whether Holbrook has considered any possible consequences from the 1 million refugees fleeing the fighting now. Not that he cares...
Anointed Washington Surge scribe Thomas Ricks takes Antiwar.com to task for writing "about an area about which they know absolutely freaking nothing," referring to my current piece on Gian Gentile: Exposing Counterfeit COIN. To his mind and of the COIN clique he runs...
Apparently, the pen is so mighty, that we can't even risk certain foreign journalists flying in our airspace. According to reports over the weekend, an Air France flight to Mexico was diverted because of one passenger, Franco-Colombian writer Hernando Calvo Ospina,...
At a Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Capitol on Thursday, President Obama called for "fighting the silence that is evil's greatest co-conspirator." On the same day, Obama decided to oppose creation of a truth commission to vigorously investigate and expose U.S....
For all of their gasbaggery about the virtue and necessity of the Fourth Estate, the glittering mainstream media elite (big names, big money, very little gumshoe) is simply allergic to breaking news, and intelligently reporting about anything that implicates the power...
On Tuesday Scott Horton interviewed Congressional Quarterly's Jeff Stein for Antiwar Radio about his explosive new story about Rep. Jane Harman's deal with an agent of the government of Israel to try to put pressure on the Department of Justice and/or the White House...
Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant. A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC's former top...
I'm always getting emails that go something like this: "Hey Scott, what the heck ever happened to Charles Goyette?! We're sick and tired of you, yada, yada, yada..." Well a blogger named Mark Yannone has outdone all of you: October 11, 2005: A year into his...
