Republicans are already beginning to defect from the McCainiac party line on Iraq. Here's George Voinovich, speaking before the Chamber of Commerce, in Howland, Ohio: “We need to get the hell out of Iraq. Do you hear me?†Voinovich decried the impending bankruptcy...
Our own Tom Engelhardt is interviewed about his new book, The World According to TomDispatch, and the plan to put 58 US bases in Iraq.
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An action alert from the Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran. The same people who called for attacking Iraq now are raising the drumbeat for military action against Iran. Despite the November 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran had...
Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal editorial page is as hard-line as ever, today featuring a lengthy and by now familiar meditation by AEI “Freedom Scholar†and perennial intrigue entrepreneur Michael Ledeen on “Iran and the Problem of Evil.†Actually, the...
Leading neocon Daniel Pipes (director of the Middle East Forum) said in an interview posted Wednesday at National Review Online, that if Barack Obama is elected, George Bush would attack Iran in the remaining ten weeks of his term. "Should the Democratic nominee win...
Antiwar Radio's new YouTube channel, YouTube.com/AntiwarRadio, is doing great. Anders Knight put it together and has already made some great videos to go along with the interview archives of my show and that of the heroic Charles Goyette of KFNX 1100 AM in Phoenix,...
Clark Hoyt, the public editor, or ombudsman, of the New York Times, went after Edward Luttwak in his weekly column today for the military historian’s controversial May 12 op-ed on why Sen. Obama would be considered an “apostate†by many Muslims and thus...
The sad news just reached us that retired General William E. Odom has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 75. Odom served as director of the National Security Agency during Ronald Reagan's second term. He had a reputation as a military hard-liner who opposed any...
Speaking of Rupert Murdoch, the May edition of his Far Eastern Economic Review was banned in China, according to Friday’s Washington Times, which attributed the banning to the magazine’s publication of an essay by the American Enterprise Institute’s “Freedom...
