Faith Fippinger, a 62-year-old retired teacher, faces jail for travelling to Iraq before the war. On what grounds? For three months she travelled around Iraq, guarding oil refineries, teaching in schools and working in hospitals. But when she returned home there was a...
During an April 22nd American Enterprise Institute briefing on the war in Iraq, Charles Krauthammer said: "Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We've had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven't found any, we will have a...
Gutsy essay in Ha'aretz about Israel's brutal youth. Batya Gur confronts a group of female soldiers harassing an elderly Palestinian: This was not one of the greater and more visible evils that take place around us daily, nor was it a disaster, only an insidious and...
From a reader: "The Clintonoids at FAIR"? Cute phrasing, which always seems to be the priority with you, but in this case at the expense of the truth. If you wanted to reveal your ignorance of FAIR's stance you could scarcely have chosen a better phrase. Just a few...
I mailed my article on sanctions-debunker Matt Welch to Welch, Reason, and Beirut Daily Star editor Michael Young. Only Young responded. You can find his response and my retort here on Young's blog. More updates later.
I enjoy reading Brendan O'Neill, because he manages to be thoughtful and provocative even when he's wrong. His new article on Spiked-online.com is a good example. It's called "Pre-emptive Inaction?," and in it, O'Neill slams the pragmatic case against war: [The]...
Is Jerry Falwell Muslim? FAIR has a decent review of Clark's actual statements on the Iraq war, concluding that "to label a candidate with such views 'anti-war' is to render the term meaningless." Of course, the Clintonoids at FAIR cast no aspersion on Gen. Clark's...
Today's article reviews the book What Every Person Should Know About War by Chris Hedges. I just came across an interesting interview with the author about the book. Click here to read it.
If you're interested in the interplay of war and culture from Euripides to Stanley Kubrick, check out Prof. David Hart's website. It's more or less a collection of syllabi from his courses at the University of Adelaide (Australia), with pages on visual art, film,...
Charge wounded soldiers for their hospital meals. From Stars & Stripes: Troops wounded in combat in the nation’s war on terrorism are being handed more than just discharge papers when they leave military hospitals — some also are getting a bill. At a daily rate of...
