Ran HaCohen is back and as BS-averse as ever. Check out "Abusing Anti-Semitism". A sample: Nowadays, an orthodox Jew can run for the most powerful office on earth, the president of the United States (I personally hope he doesn't win). A Jew can be the mayor of...
Great title from the Sunday Mirror. Iraq war quote of the day, from Lady Thatcher: Britain should never have been involved and it will be very difficult to get our troops out in anything like the near future.
As a supplement to today's article, "Toward a Meaningful Yom Kippur," I'll include these lines from Leonard Cohen: You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a...
He might consider putting some over Paul Wolfowitz's mouth. Another brilliant gem from the undersecretary: Pressed by House Democrats about whether the administration planned to withdraw U.S. troops right before the 2004 presidential election, Wolfowitz assured them...
Nebojsa mentioned the US govt's hilariotic idea of sending Mongolian troops to Iraq (below). It's worth mentioning also that a bin Laden message aired worldwide last year compared Powell & Cheney to Hulagu, so sending a token force of Mongols to Iraq will be a...
Was looking for a picture and stumbled across this gem: Clark for President!
It was the site of a 1948 atrocity. From Ha'aretz: The attack on April 9, 1948, killed anywhere from 108 to 254 [Arab] villagers - the number is still debated - and accelerated Israeli expropriation of land. One man's terrorist and all that...
I'm not sure if Christopher Hitchens has written a tribute to Edward Said yet. The Alex Cockburn article spotlighted on Antiwar.com today makes reference to Hitchens' recent ambush of Said. This essay from last week picks the ambush apart.
This Wesley Clark speech from May 2001 is one of the most disjointed, muddleheaded things I've ever read. It's also pretty enlightening. Gen. Clark not only wants the U.S. to keep pestering all the countries we currently pester, he'd like us to adopt Africa and work a...
I usually like Chris Floyd, but this ignorant crap pissed me off. "In other words, the looters won't have to plow so much as a dime of their swag back into the local economy; every last cent wrung from the bludgeoned Iraqi people will flow into corporate coffers and...
