Headmaster Sullivan tells us to clean our plates: Imagine an Obama-McCain race: adult, graceful, necessary, and good for us. Ah, Mr. Platitude vs. Mr. Come-Unglued: yep, it'll be a regular Metamucil martini. Very adult!
Actions Have Reactions?! Nonsense! Witchcraft!
Today's nugget of conventional wisdom comes from liberal hawk George Packer: In this election, the isolationist candidate is the Texas congressman Ron Paul. He frequently attacks the core rationale of Bush’s foreign policy, and receives enthusiastic applause for...
US State Dept: Shi’ite-Led Govt Larger Threat than al-Qaeda
The November 21 Iraq Weekly Status Report, published by the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the US Department of State: Senior military commanders now portray the intransigence of Iraq's Shiite dominated government as the key threat facing the U.S. effort in Iraq,...
Robert Parry
Neocons Think They’ve Won Iraq
Another Bush Bootlicker Bites the Dust
Australian voters kicked Prime Minister John Howard out of office yesterday. Howard was even more of a groveler to Bush than Tony Blair. One step Bush took to try to help Howard win reelection was to release Australian David Hicks from Guantanamo earlier this...
Daniel Levy
Peace is Possible
Eric Margolis
Pakistan: Chickens Come Home
Gareth Porter
War Party Lies About Syria, DPRK, Iran
Secret Society
Peter Hitchens files a fascinating report from North Korea, where the regime's pursuit of security at all costs keeps the public in constant darkness, literally and figuratively: The main feeling the visitor has in Pyongyang is one of pity at the pathos of the...
Aaron Glantz
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