Chris Floyd

[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_04_30_floyd.mp3] Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, explains America’s proxy war in Somalia and some of the liars in the mass media who aid and abet this mass murder....

Exposing Shady NYT Reporting on Somalia

We’ve had a lot of people asking why we would run this article from the New York Times on Somalia. Well, we’re not ones to crush news, and quotes like this: Omar Hussein Ahmed, an olive oil exporter in Mogadishu, the capital, said he and a group of fellow...

Andrew Cockburn pt.2

Antiwar Radio Exclusive: Revealed by Andrew Cockburn April 18, 2007: When Secretary of State Madeline Albright announced, on March 26, 1997, that Iraqi sanctions would stay in place despite the UN inspectors success it was an effort to preempt UN inspection chief Ralf...

Andrew Sullivan — Still Lying, After All These Years

I kind of feel sorry for Andrew Sullivan for a lot of reasons: having to explain his past pro-war vehemence in light of the disaster unfolding in Iraq can’t be easy, even for a champion evader. And having to live down his more outrageous bouts of hysteria, such...