There's a wave of "tagging" washing through the blogosphere: the idea is to stimulate discussion of books by "tagging" someone you know to reveal what books they've read recently, how many books they own, the five top books that went into forming their views, etc....
The Turkish Weekly reports (hat tip: Juan Cole): "Eighty two Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum have pressed for the withdrawal of the US-led occupation troops from their country. "The Shiite, Kurdish, Sunni Arab, Christian and communist legislators...
Hey, check out a promising website devoted to organizing the Antiwar League, a left-right alliance against the Iraq war. (Hat tip: Mark Brady). From their website: "What is lacking today is a permanent, populist, broad-based political force to challenge the worldview...
John McCain -- possibly the worst, most persistent warmonger of them all -- is running for President, again, and he's on "Meet the Press" right this moment, telling the American people that they're wrong about Iraq -- we aren't totally losing. No, the insurgency isn't...
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Loretta Napoleoni, author of the new book Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars behind the Terror Networks from 4-5 pm eastern time. Update: Show's over, Archives
Judge Janice Rogers Brown, in an August 2000 speech to the Institute for Justice [.pdf]:[D]emocracy need not be a good regime — as we are proving every day. Freedom and democracy are not synonymous. Indeed, one of the grave errors of American foreign policy is the...
From Kevin Carson's neocon lexicon/guide to inner peace: Moral Relativism. Aka historicism. The denial of any unified, objective standard of value. The diametric opposite of Moral Equivalence (q.v.). Moral Equivalence. Judgment of the United States government by the...
Some interesting reads I've come across lately: *Worried about the military's recruiting slump? Well, don't just stand there being a chickenhawk. Pull out a feather and hand it to a younger chickenhawk. *Why the ChiComs are still around and the Soviets aren't. *The...
Yes, apologists for Big Brother are a**holes, and unless the frank description of them as such (and, oh yeah, nudity) offends you, you'll enjoy this Penn & Teller video on the PATRIOT Act.
'I'll be on "Connected Coast to Coast" hosted by Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley, on Friday(noon EST/9am PST). It's a segment about military recruiting.. and why the numbers are so low. (Duh!) Right-wing nut-bar Cliff Kincaid (of "Accuracy" in Media) is going to...
