Warmongering Wusses

Ever notice how many of those who are the keenest to torture and kill can’t take the slightest criticism? Doug Bandow highlights a Japan Today article on how Dick “F*ck Yourself” Cheney deals with the sting of fairly obvious...

Chris Hedges

Antiwar Radio: Chris Hedges Chris Hedges, the former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times, explains his view of the disaster in Iraq, the signs and likely consequences of the impending war with Iran and his new book American Fascists: The Christian Right...

Did al-Sadr Hang Saddam?

There are rumors – as yet unconfirmed – that the reason those black-masked thugs who hanged former U.S. puppet-dictator Saddam Hussein on December 30th were chanting “Moqtada! Moqtada!” was not just because they were members of his Mahdi Army, but...

Who, Me? — A Liberal?

A conservative blogger comments on my recent column on the Litvinenko affair: It has become a very strange time indeed when I find myself in complete agreement with an anti-war liberal. In this case it is on the Litvinenko incident, and the argument laid out is an...

The Grand Chessboard

It’s so annoying when a newspaper I otherwise like has neo-imperialist politics. Last week’s Economist, for example, opines that Britain, a country that has no militarily hostile neighbors and hasn’t been invaded in centuries, must have nuclear...