What Sibel Edmonds Is Allowed to Say

Virtually nothing, thanks to an Ashcroft gag order. See the highlighted list of questions she's allowed to answer in a deposition here. And make sure you check out our exclusive interview with the FBI whistleblower here.

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Saturday Blog Tour on Sunday

Hey, Gene - that happened to us, too! We managed to prolong the agony by signing up for our new DSL with an appalling company that rivals AOL for crayola colored useless software that tries to take over your life, a really bad modem that refused to work with our...

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Military Numeracy is to Numeracy What…

When I was lad I served a term as security guard at a ship repair firm. Navy guys my age told me tales of rural recruiters' lies: they'd expected to be learning useful radio technology skills while romancing exotic ladies in foreign ports, instead they were cleaning...

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Blowing Up the Peace Process

Saturday must've looked like a promising day to Palestinians. The International Court of Justice had just declared the Israeli wall illegal, the UN was in the process of drafting resolutions criticizing Israel about it. Ariel Sharon's position was weakening, he had...

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Madison/Rafah: Little In Common?

Senator Edward Kennedy has called the Iraqi prison scandal "the steepest and deepest fall from grace in the history of our country," "Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management." As a result, "America is being vilified throughtout the Middle East and in...

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Don’t step down, Tony

Last month, British PM Tony Blair may have considered stepping down. Why? Just because he lied about WMD evidence, just because he contradicted his own MI6 intelligence service, just because he launched a murderous attack on a defenceless third world nation, killing...

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While the National Guard Was Guarding Iraq…

I was channel-surfing a few days ago & I saw an alarming local news alert. 200 pounds of explosives had been stolen from a heavily fortified secret government arms depot. Why were they announcing this? Obviously because they had no leads and hoped for assistance from...

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Krauthammer’s Intifada Victory

The sensationally ignorant Charles Krauthammer has a new pro-Israel column in the Washington Post today. Krauthammer claims that the Palestinian intifada is over, due to two factors: The brilliantly effective Israeli strategy in attacking Hamas leaders with precision...

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I Feel Sorry for Ariel Sharon

We here at Antiwar.com are often very critical of Ariel Sharon, and rightly so. He has, after all, spent the last 50+ years killing civilians in a war few ever seem to get tired of. He's directly responsible for tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths, and is now...

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