Niall Ferguson reminds us that when a president's got nothin', he's got nothin' to lose.

That's it folks. It's time to stop pretending that this is America anymore. It's not. After 60 years of the postwar Anglo-American empire, the Declaration of Independence has finally been formally annulled by the crime ring currently cloaking itself in the forms of a...

Andrew Sullivan: I'm aware of one person who clearly stated before the war that he believed that Saddam had no WMDs. That was Scott Ritter. This is not the same as saying that we didn't know for sure, or should have waited some more; or that containment could have...

The real heroes of Afghanistan are its women, who over decades of oppression and brutality continue to struggle for peace and freedom. Their goals are the simple human ones of obtaining medical help, education, and freedom from religious fundamentalism. Their enemies...

However embarrassing a second death in six days might be, the Hague Inquisition probably breathed a sigh of relief when Slobodan Milosevic was found dead today. From the very first day, their effort to stage a show trial providing quasi-legal cover for Empire's...

The Toledo Blade is reporting that the US Marine Corps is again conducting urban warfare training exersizes in the streets of the USA, this time attacking downtown office buildings in Toledo, Ohio. Are we to believe that this is to help them in their imperial mission...

Andrew Sullivan – for whom every topic is ultimately just another opportunity for navel-gazing – offers his mea sorta culpa. Let's have a mercifully abridged look: In retrospect, neoconservatives (and I fully include myself [We know, Andrew, we know - Ed.]) made...

Christopher Hitchens calls for détente with Iran! (While covering his ass for previous warmongering, but still…)

In a very interesting piece at the Telegraph, self-described imperialist Niall Ferguson revisits Gladstone's six principles of foreign policy. One struck me as particularly fitting in light of Bush's India-Pakistan tour:"Even when you do a good thing," Gladstone...

Good God. Did you know about this? Credit card payments at a certain percentage above one's average payment automatically trigger an investigation by Homeland Security. (Via LRC.)