Saturday Blog Tour

How the Flypaper Theory is working. If you don’t understand it you’re just unenlightened, like Jim Henley. Via Micah Holmquist, Mickey Z. on Osama bin Laden vs. Pat Tillman zeynep zeroes in on the essential question for the US military, which tried to...

Saturday Blog Tour

If you aren’t reading James Wolcott’s blog, you’re missing elegant bullseyes like this.Elections are about the future. Or so we’re constantly told. But the future has barely made a guest appearance during this election campaign. And not the...

Saturday Blog Tour

C. Lounsbury on the US military’s discovery that people don’t hate you as bad when they are accorded some respect and allowed to retain their dignity. Unfortunately, as one Iraqi points out, it’s “too little, too late.” When the US...

Iraqi Kurdistan Heats Up

Turkey moved against the Kurdish separatist rebels in Northern Iraq today, killing eleven PKK rebels. Two Turks were killed in the action. Turkey has long threatened to take out the PKK themselves, after it became clear that American promises to “deal...

Eric Garris Interview

Eric Garris, Webmaster of Antiwar.com, was interviewed on Saturday by radio host Scott Horton, aka Philip Dru: Administrator , for his new show. Eric took a few calls, and had spirited debates with a Vietnam vet, and someone who thinks that the U.N. wasn’t tough...