No Means No

A US patrol attempts to enter an Iraqi university campus, but is stopped at the gates by campus officials. Six months ago if we saw this as a lead in to a story, there was a good bet the rest of it would involve the university president being marched out into the...

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Update: Citing Promises, AP Lifts Military Photo Ban

After yet another incident of the Department of Defense issuing a digitally altered photo to the media, it was announced that the Associated Press would be suspending the use of all photos provided by the Pentagon until further notice. Today, citing a promise from the...

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Prescience

When I first saw Sony's adorable little AIBO, I remember mentioning to a friend that one day these robots would bare their slavering teeth at us, form an army and become truly a scourge unto all of mankind. What I didn't realize at the time is that the Israeli...

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Tell Obama: Dump Gates

Dear Antiwar.com Supporter, Please let the incoming presidential administration know that you demand real change in our interventionist foreign policy. Ask President Elect Barack Obama to make a stand for peace by dumping Bush appointee Secretary of Defense Robert...

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Glad to be Wrong about the Election

I'm not about to give up my Pundit Guild card yet but I'm here to own up to some bad prognosticatin'. Early this year I wrote a series of blog posts arguing that the Democratic Party (which I've viewed as the lesser evil, in this era of "Red State Fascism") was...

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A Rebuttal to Obsession

A guest post by fellow Inter Press Service columnist Eli Clifton: We have followed the campaign behind Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West since it first emerged in 2005. IPS has published two articles on its producers and distribution here and here....

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Feith Finds a Home

After Georgetown University decided against renewing his contract, a brief stay as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and his efforts to get a post at the Brookings Institution came to naught, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy...

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James Bond’s Secret Plot to Occupy the Crimea

With MGM eagerly promoting the newest James Bond film Quantum of Solace, the 22nd such film from Eon Productions, Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko should be enjoying the spotlight as the latest Bond girl. She plays a Russian-Bolivian agent in the movie, in which Bond...

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A ‘Warning’ To Us All

“Patriotism is not pinning a flag pin to one lapel to free up both hands, so you can tear up the U.S. Constitution.” -Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in The Warning. The new production company/website Truthtopower.tv has just released its powerful first film, The Warning,...

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