The Enemy Within

Tuesday, October 10, 2006, at 9pm Eastern, government TV's Frontline - after all the bogus arrests on terrorism charges across this country over the last few years - will be taking on the question of whether al-Qaeda actually has people here in America at all....

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Saddam Hussein: For Better or Worse?

National Review (October 9, 2006, p. 4) is upset with Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), the lead Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Not only has he said that the Iraq War he voted for was badly planned and badly fought, and that the Bush administration lied...

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They’re Cracking …

Senator John Warner (R-Virginia), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, fresh from a trip to Iraq, on the war: "I assure you, in two or three months, if this thing hasn't come to fruition and if this level of violence is not under control and this...

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Maps of War

A friend alerted me to this terrific site showing political maps in the Middle East. There’s current info re Iraq, for instance, but also a wonderfully informative historical series of middle east maps that shows ALL the various imperial powers who’ve left their...

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Israel Lobby Debate at the Cooper Union

On Sept. 28, the Cooper Union in NYC hosted a debate on the power of the Israel lobby in America. Panelists: John Mearsheimer, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Martin Indyk, Tony Judt, Rashid Khalidi, and Dennis Ross. A video recording of the debate in 11 segments can be found here.

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World Net Daily Ditches Its Last Antiwar Writer

WorldNetDaily has done it again. First they cut Lew Rockwell and Alan Bock, now Gordon Prather has finally gotten the axe from their list of columnists. He will continue to write his exclusive column for Antiwar.com every weekend. Dr. Prather, a nuclear physicist...

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Tony Judt Speech Shut Down by ADL

[UPDATE: Apparently, the Judt speech will go on, but on Oct. 16. But see this from the New York Sun.] Historian Tony Judt, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU, writes, I was due to speak this evening, in...

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Foley the One-Handed Warrior

ABC News revealed this afternoon that Foley was engaging in “Internet sex” with a teenage boy while Foley was voting for the Bush administration’s Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriation in 2003.   ABC reports: This message was dated April 2003, at...

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Attention, Cato Shoppers

We've been pretty critical of the Cato Institute around here, frequently warning our antiwar peeps that money sent to Brink Lindsey and co. is wasted, at best. But now, in the interest of fairness, I must issue a consumer alert for pro-war Cato donors: you aren't...

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