Turkmenistan’s president, Saparmurat Niyazov, former party chairman under the Soviets – the same party continues to dominate Turkmenistan’s politics today – has changed his name to Akbar Turkmenbashy, which means “Great Father of all Turkmen.” And his megalomania is...
Occupation Officials, angered and disappointed by their own hand-picked Iraqi Governing Council, let it be known that they are looking to dump the council. Within hours of the release of this story, it was announced that US guards shot and killed the leader of the...
Ralph Peters gulps the Ipecac of political correctness and vomits some lovely reflections on the perpetual collective guilt of Germans. For more on this phenomenon, read Paul Gottfried's "Hating the Krauts." A slightly more benign version of Peters' view holds that...
Antiwar.com's own Alan Bock had this to say in Sunday's OC Register: Dennis Kucinich, who drove Cleveland to bankruptcy before getting himself elected to Congress, is a buffoon who seems determined to use his campaign to discredit the anti-war movement. Ouch....
They're all in Iraq and Afganistan (and Korea, Kuwait, Qatar, Pakistan, Germany, Uzbekistan, Japan, Colombia, etc.
As of today, the official wounded count stands at 2230. As usual though, gov't numbers are untrustworthy. From the Stars and Stripes: “It is unmistakable that Iraq is still a war zone,” Miller [R- NC visiting Landstuhl in Gernmany] said. He said there is an average of...
If the FBI could carry out a pre–Sept. 11 sting operation against Hamas that included the use of no-warrant wiretaps, dummy companies, informants, overseas recruitment, etc., why weren't those same aggressive techniques used against al Qaeda? One possibility is that...
Within the past week, there has been a bunch of articles about the Pentagon's announcement that they were trying to fill local draft boards. Within the past 24 hours, the announcement has been pulled from the "Defend America" site run by the DOD. You can still view...
The "Casualty Counter" (see upper right hand side of the blog page) is now available for anyone with a website and a bit of html and javascript knowledge. Visit this page for the easy directions.
What's this about opponents of the PATRIOT Act being "Anti-American"? Liberty-leaching PATRIOT actors claim that the Sept. 11 attacks succeeded because US spies and secret police were hamstrung by excessive caution and concern for civil liberties. How then to explain,...
