The Ledeen Move

I was really surprised by the news, first reported by Laura Rozen on her blog on Mother Jones, that Michael Ledeen, who had been under Richard Perle’s wing at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for some 20 years, has moved to the Foundation for the Defense of...

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Washington Headline of the Year!

"CIA More Fully Denies Deception About Iraq" - in today's Washington Post. The subhead should have read: "This Time We Are Not Lying Like Weasels - We Swear!" The Post article on the CIA's reaction to Ron Suskind's revelations included this tidbit from the CIA's...

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Two Articles on Georgia Crisis Well Worth Reading

I’m still on vacation but, like everyone else, have been quite amazed at the ongoing Georgia crisis, particularly the failure so far of the administration and the campaigns of the two presidential candidates to absorb its potential significance and the need for...

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Worst Taliban Attack or Worst NATO Blunder?

The big news yesterday was the death of 10 French soldiers in Afghanistan. They called it the worst Taliban attack on NATO forces in three years. But hold the presses... AFP and al-Jazeera are reporting that the French army refuses to comment on a report in Le Monde...

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A Step Up for Haiti?

Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis, the new Haitian prime minister, is having some trouble getting ratified by parliament -- and the Haitian Constitution is no help in pointing the way to a resolution. It's about time Haiti had a female kleptocrat -- it's quite...

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Justin Raimondo vs. Christopher Hitchens on al-Jazeera

Justin Raimondo was on al Jazeera yesterday, with Christopher Hitchens and Nazar Janabi from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Riz Khan was the host. The show was about al-Qaeda: after 20 years of existence, what is it’s future? Is it recruiting? Those...

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An Apology to Cynthia McKinney and Chuck Baldwin

On Friday August 15, Antiwar.com featured a front page template with the images of John McCain, Barack Obama, Bob Barr and Ralph Nader below the caption, We are holding their feet to the fire: Without fear or favor. Some of our readers expressed a concern that by not...

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