I'm a little sick of hearing how Iran is to blame for rising oil prices. This week we've gotten a crystal clear indicator of the true cause, and it can be summed up elegantly over the past two trading days. Yesterday: Iranian President Ahmadinejad sends a...
Aaron Glantz Interview
Monday afternoon I spoke with Aaron Glantz, author of How America Lost Iraq, reporter for Pacifica Radio and contributor to Antiwar.com, about the situation in Iraq with particular attention on Kurdish separatism. Also discussed were the border clashes with Iran, oil...
Plight of Two Women: Wounded, Lose Husbands, Children at Checkpoint in Iraq
Want this badge? If you, like me, are appalled at the plight and number of noncombatants in Iraq whose lives are destroyed or rendered unbearable by war-engendered violence, you might want to make a donation to GiveMeaning.com on behalf of two Iraqi women wounded at a...
Douglas Feith to Teach National Security at Georgetown
Really."Douglas J. Feith, the former Pentagon policy chief who was an architect of the administration's war on terrorism, is joining the faculty of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. In an announcement Monday, the university said Feith will teach a...
Careful, Those Flying Bouquets Can Put an Eye Out
Afghans and Iranians head to the florists.
The War in Iraq and the Price of Gas
Tim Gillin over at my blog, Stress, has pointed out this interview of economist Joseph Stiglitz (of this war will cost 2 trillion dollars fame) about the effect of the Iraq war on the price of gas. (Hint: It's a hell of a lot more than they've been saying.) Can't wait...
Check It Out
Leon Hadar excerpts his new Reason piece on Iraq.
God Only Knows What Was in Those ACME Crates
Clark Stooksbury's intelligence-gathering at FreeRepublic.com yields evidence of the chilling fate we avoided by deposing Saddam.
Home-Schooled Soldiers
According to March 6, 2006, "Education Report" in The New American: "Home-schoolers will find it easier and more rewarding to join our nation's military forces. They are now considered 'preferred enlistees,' and are on an equal footing with other top recruits." In...
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