I made a mistake and rush to correct it. The photo of the Afghan mujahadin does not include Gulbuddin Hekmatyar because, contrary to my contention in this post, he did not meet with Ronald Reagan in the White House. It was not for lack of an invitation, however. In...
I didn’t want the week to go by completely without noting the revealing interview given by Likud Party leader and former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu to the Financial Times and published in its October 7 edition. The interview makes clear that Netanyahu, who,...
[audio:http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/download.php?filename=2008-10-09_045_the_fraudulent_war.mp3] Lew Rockwell, founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and proprietor of LewRockwell.com, and Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of...
In a speech today, John McCain told the audience: "Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners." Here is a 13 second YouTube clip from the speech. I thought McCain had been in politics long enough to know not to notify people that he...
It isn’t very often that I get excited about advertisements – in fact, it’s never happened! – but if you’ll look at the top of the front page of Antiwar.com, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Because, you see, The American Conservative isn’t just...
Monday will reportedly see the final edition of the neoconservative New York Sun. The Sun was started in 2002 by Conrad Black and a number of other investors. They took a consistent stand in favor of neocon wars. At the start of this month, the newspaper said it was...
In last night's debate, McCain again strutted out the fact of his POW status during the Vietnam war. A servile media has long allowed this to be the primary part of McCain's halo. But instead, it should raise questions that go to the heart of McCain's willingness to...
I attended a debate between Harvard Prof. Steven Walt and veteran neo-conservative and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Joshua Muravchik at the Nixon Center Thursday evening. Most notable for the unfortunately abbreviated time I was there was Muravchik’s...
Congressional Democrats this week shelved the sinister House Concurrent Resolution 362. That resolution, a high priority for AIPAC, would have imposed "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing...
The Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin revealed her lack of understanding of the world. This would be funny if she wasn't so close to actually becoming Commander-in-Chief:
