In Japan, that is – one of our closest allies, whose discussion of developing nukes was only a response to Kim Jong-Il's growing arsenal – but, hey, let's go ahead and chalk this up to Dubya's refusal to tolerate Saddam's WMD.
According to former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, writing in the October 9th edition of the American Conservative magazine, the Bush administration is withholding a new CIA National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. "The United States government’s intelligence community...
At the risk of offending Russians, I feel I really must chime in on the subject of the quite notable suckiness of their country. I'll just recount current events which have irked me -- if I have to mention everything that has bugged me about the behavior of Russia's...
Matt Yglesias on Marty Peretz's new blog: "Martin Peretz surveys the violence in Iraq, and discerns the cause -- the country turns out to be full of Muslims." Â
As aspiring Georgian dictator Mikheil Saakashvili unleashes a wave of repression aimed at opposition parties, arrests their leaders on trumped-up charges of "spying," cracks down on the independent media, tortures his political opponents and other prisoners held in...
The feds have become super vigilant in tapping our phone calls, tracing our movements, and intruding into our lives over the last 5 years. Wouldn’t it be great to have hidden microphones around the White House this morning to hear what was said by dignitaries,...
Ralph Peters takes a whack at redrawing the Middle East.
The Boy Emperor explains.
The U.S. has recently raised the possibility of a long-planned embargo of North Korea, but the Chinese and the Russians are against it, and probably won't vote for it in the UN Security Council. However, I have it from a very good on-the-scene source that the U.S....
Every once in a while the formerly libertarian Cato Institute lets loose with an analysis of the shape of libertarianism in the form of a voter profile: they did this some years back, you'll recall,with a study (based on a Pew Center survey) that showed a considerable...
