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...
"The accused and his ancestors have been riding our backs for 80 years," says the opinion of a Croatian judge who convicted a local Serb of 'war crimes'. According to the Croatian weekly "Feral Tribune," when ruling in the case on June 30, Judge Branko Milanovic went...
A recently linked-to article in Stars and Stripes proudly proclaims that a Mongolian contingent has finished U.S. peacekeepr training and is ready to deploy to Iraq. This surely ranks as one of the worst ideas ever - save for invading Iraq to begin with, of course....
