As my column for tomorrow asks, "What if you lived there?" From the Independent: The abd al-Kerim family didn't have a chance. American soldiers opened fire on their car with no warning and at close quarters. They killed the father and three of the children, one of...
The Telegraph is now using the same line about Condi Rice. Compare their dateline to my last post. I'm not out to Jayson Blair anybody!
Dr. Rice apparently never read my "Collateral Damage" debut. Speaking before the National Association of Black Journalists: National security adviser Condoleezza Rice likened Iraq's halting steps toward self-government to black Americans' struggle for civil rights,...
An article on the cinematic tastes of U.S. presidents turns up some interesting nuggets. Bill Clinton requested the shoot-out classic High Noon over 30 times while in the White House (because of its "strong-willed leader taking a situation of imminent danger into his...
Great article from In These Times about the licentious relationships between PR firms and the government. Isn't it interesting that the three pillars of journalism schools are public relations, reportage, and political communications? [Link taken from...
Colonel David Hackworth, whose Army career started at age 15, calls Donald Rumsfeld an "asshole." Not that we didn't know as much already, but it's nice to hear it from an expert.
If I didn't see his goofy visage so damn often. Clifford May, of the mega-bogus Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, lets us in on a secret. There's a small, backwards, theocratic state in the Middle East that funnels some of its massive U.S. aid back into...
David Kay isn't that kind of doctor. The oft-maligned Scott Ritter must be laughing.
Speak favorably of Antiwar.com on the Free Republic website, and you'll have your logging privileges revoked. Hey, that's their right, and closed-mindedness is by no means inconsistent with their platform. But we should be shocked when a writer at a libertarian mag...
"Turning Tables" -- a US soldier "blogging" from Baghdad -- hopes that something will be found:i hope they find nuclear missile silos filled with i.c.b.m.'s spouting steam and gas from their sides...i hope we find chemical factories filled with barrels of mustard gas...
