It's hilarious -- that's the word for The War of the Words: The 101s Fighting Keyboarders, a satiric take-down of the "war-bloggers," who earned a place in military history by leading a heroic assault on the third-rate, broken down army of Saddam Hussein from the...
Some of the nation’s best antiwar cartoonists will be appearing this weekend at the Small Press Expo - America’s premier cartooning and comic arts festival - in Bethesda, Maryland this Friday and Saturday.  Many of the cartoonists appeared at a book event...
What exactly is going on in Iraq, and what are its long-term implications? What will it take for Iraq to become a stable nation? How much does this depend on U.S. policies? How will the outcome in Iraq affect oil prices and the U.S. economy? How will it affect...
A new poll is out: "According to a poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates released by Newsweek. 61 per cent of respondents believe the Bush administration misinterpreted or misanalyzed the intelligence reports they said indicated Iraq had banned weapons. In...
Is this a trend, or what? First, the Polish embassy in New York cancels a scheduled talk by Tony Judt in response to pressure from Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Judt's sin? He defended scholars John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, whose...
The War Party did more to enlist journalists in the cause of invading Iraq than deploying Judith Miller. Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, reveals a top secret meeting chaired by Paul Wolfowitz, on November 29, 2001, attended by thinktank wonks, government...
Get ready for a furor: A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. The estimate, produced by interviewing...
According to polls, tens of millions of Americans believe that the government was behind the 9/11 attacks. But 2 more conspiracy theories were pretty well debunked recently. (1) That the government shot down United Flight 93. (2) That the air force was ordered to...
On Sept. 12, the Smith Family Foundation held a discussion on "Responding to Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: Have We Been Effective Since 9/11?" Our own Leon Hadar was there, along with David "Axis of Evil" Frum and pollster Craig Charney. To watch a video or...
Not since "Dewey Defeats Truman" adorned the front page of the Chicago Tribune has a headline-writer gotten it more wrong: "N. Korea appears to back down on threat"Â That Associated Press story, posted hours before the North Koreans announced a successful...
