Gordon Prather saw my previous blog entry and forwarded this column on the same subject. Prather notes that while "The scare-monger battle cry is that terrorists are planning to use various weapons of mass destruction on each and everyone of you." this is a fraud,...
In Arnaud de Borchgrave's spotlight piece today, he mentions the need for the United States and Russia to work together on the Nuclear question;Russia and America need each other today on several critical fronts, from transnational terrorism to the security of...
NPR has posted the unedited Sites video of the Fallujah mosque shooting, as well as an audio interview with Sites. The interview begins with a discussion of the reasons the US military declined to prosecute the Marine who shot the unarmed wounded Iraqi on tape. Four...
So? It's a week old. I missed it, maybe you did too. The Washington Times: House moves to raise U.S. debt ceilingWashington, DC, May. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. House has sent legislation to the Senate that would raise the federal debt limit to nearly $9 trillion, a $781...
As soon as the final touches of translation are completed, Venezuela is to formally submit a request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, accused (and pretty much known even by the CIA) of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing the 73 people on board. He is...
The idea of replacing the felled twin towers of the World Trade Center with a "Freedom Tower" -- the design of which seems, at least to this eye, self-consciously grandiose -- always was a bit ... overblown. Now we learn that the design originally approved by the city...
These guys should read this guy. (Hat tip: Scott Horton)
If we peel back the outer "democratic" skin of Ukraine's much-touted "Orange Revolution," we find the same old same old: the newly-installed regime of Viktor Yushchenko is pulling the license of independent television station NTN to expand beyond the Kiev area. NTN...
Here it's been close to a week since Israeli spy and former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin was nabbed by the feds, and still not a peep out of the right-wing of the blogosphere. And these are the same people who want to set up their own news service? Well, I've got a...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Jaafar pulls out one of the dozens of files piled on his desk and leafs through evidence that a Finance Ministry employee once served in Saddam Hussein's notorious intelligence agency. Snapping the file shut, he pronounces his verdict: "This...
