From Spain to Indonesia?

On Wednesday, the 8th-grader-in-chief again pitched the most far-fetched of lies during his speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. They loved it, of course. In the speech, Bush tried to paint a picture of a dark and terrible future if the US...

Shoe(t)ing at Allawi

An astute AntiWar.com reader explains why Allawi would rather claim to have been the victim of gun-wielding assassins than an angry mob throwing tomatoes and shoes:In Arab culture its more acceptable to a man to be hit by a bullet rather than a shoe -or even worse!-by...

The colour of honour

Why do Bush-boosting, pro-war Americans especially seem to find it impossible to imagine walking in another’s shoes?  Via Jim Henley and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, you’ll recognize the typically American Bushie right-winger attitude in the following Al...

Russia and the Boomerang Effect

Nikolas Gvosdev, editor of The National Interest, takes down Reason magazine’s Cathy “”there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks” Young: “How easily Americans play hard and fast with the truth. History is now being...

Friday Link-o-Rama: It’s All Greek To Me

Check out Don’t Bomb Us — a blog by the staff of Al Jazeera. If only Yugoslavia’s RTS had thought of that … Boris Johnson, British MP and editor of the conservative Spectator — which has the good taste to run a column by Taki...