Just coming across the wire: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spent $16,000 on flowers this year. Of course, not one was strewn on the grave of a soldier who fell in the senseless war in Iraq she and her party have continued to fund. According to her office, all...
Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service's Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. While hard-line neo-conservatives associated with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Commentary, and the Wall Street Journal editorial...
Iran Lies Shift and Back Again
US Has Abused Iraq for a Long Time
I read this article and failed to find a satisfactory explanation of the statement in the synopsis that "the U.S. troop buildup has brought down violence." I see where Sunni groups have decided that al-Qaeda was -- for now -- a worse foe than the US occupation. I see...
Quite tragic. CNN was ready to help lead the march to attack Iran with its special "We Were Warned – Iran Goes Nuclear." The two-hour show was to air December 12. Rather than deal with facts, the show was set in a future where Iran has become a nuclear threat. That...
A recent short piece in The Nation, "Ron Paul's Roots," by Christopher Hayes, has this eye-popping denunciation of Rep. Paul by the unbearably pompous Brink Lindsey, a Cato Institute "scholar" and recently appointed vice president for research, "He doesn't strike me...
Treason at Pearl Harbor
New Equation in the Gulf
Giuliani’s Ties to KSM and Osama’s Friend
