Only follow this link if you're one of the reality-based community. Otherwise, you'd best keep your illusions intact by sticking to the pure, unfiltered Chrenkoff version: Good electricity news from Iraq Via Jim Henley

Under the absurdly self-evident headline, "Many Iraqis See Sectarian Roots in New Killings" (duh) the NY Times, after relating how Hassan al-Nuaimi, an Iraqi Sunni cleric, was found dumped in an empty lot with a hole drilled in his head and both eyes gouged out,...

Drudge is running a report about an exchange between the only White House correspondent who matters - Helen Thomas - and White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. It goes like this;Q The other day -- in fact, this week, you said that we, the United States, is in...

Due to some personal obligations, there won't be a Balkan Express this week. Look for a new article next Thursday.

Justin Raimondo appeared again on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Wednesday morning. He discussed the Larry Franklin/AIPAC affair. The show segment is now available archived on the Democracy Now! Website. The show will also be on today: Direct-TV, channel 375, from...

"What no one seemed to notice. . . was the ever widening gap. . .between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not...

Ah, Afghanistan. The good war. The poster child for regime change. Well, looks like the poster child is a bad seed. From the NYT:Since beginning work last month, the country's Central Poppy Eradication Force, an American-trained group, has destroyed less than 250...

President Bush was asked whether the release of the photos of Saddam would incite violence: Well, you asked me whether or not that would inspire people. You know, I don’t think a photo inspires murderers. I think they’re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and...

This must be lifted from the works of Suleyman Ahmad:Oh there are people who will tell you we have nothing to fear from space (hereafter to be known as "stupid people"), but they haven't seen the alien face of the terrorist threat: Moon Islamists, Martian Wahhabists,...

Justin Raimondo appeared on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Friday morning. He discussed the situation in Uzbekistan. He appeared live early this morning -- the show is available today on satellite TV and is now available archived on the Democracy Now! Website. A...