Long Live Sir Thatcher!

Antiwar.com isn't even supposed to have a position on Mark Thatcher and his merrie band of overthrowers, since it's not a US foreign policy issue and it's not really a war issue. But I have a position on the subject, and it is this: if I had known they were planning...

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Porter Goss Hates America

James Bovard points out that Porter Goss Hates America:"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists," CIA director Porter Goss told a congressional committee yesterday. “ Goss warned: “Islamic extremists are exploiting the...

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Serbian President in Kosovo

Serbian president Boris Tadic visited Kosovo this week, touring besieged Serbian enclaves and opposing the occupied province's independence. The visit was met with mixed sentiments by the Imperial press, largely depending on the degree of their Albanian favoritism....

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We’re Number 37!

After a year-end holiday slump, Antiwar.com is back on Alexa/Amazon's Top 50 News Site list. Combining reach and rank, Antiwar.com ranks #37 among the Top 50 News Sites on the Web. We are just behind Los Angeles Times, CBS News, and the Chicago Tribune, and just ahead...

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Iraqi PM speculation premature

There's much speculation going on about the selection of the Prime Minister of the Shiite and Kurdish National Assembly. A couple of items to remember. Parties have three days after election ballots are released to challenge the results. Al Jazeera reports today that...

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Recent Letters

In Backtalk: Monica Benderman announces the establishment of the Kevin Benderman Defense Committee’s Web site: BendermanDefense.org. John Mayew suggests that we write to our elected representatives in support of Sibel Edmonds, while T. Tunney says that letter-writing...

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More on Maher

Bill Maher sure is popular. I have never gotten so much mail about anything as I got about this. The typical message went along these lines; A) I don't have a sense of humour, so B) I am unable to appreciate the subtle irony of Maher's remarks, therefore C) I should...

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War on Terror…a report

I had no idea the war was going this badly. The Editors take us right into the bloody trenches of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders with this action-packed report from the home front:BLOGOSPHERE (Reuters) - Declining rates of reenlistment among right-wing pundits is...

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Maher: attacking Iraq not a bad idea

On Larry King's mostly unwatchable show, I just caught the thoroughly disgusting Bill Maher say something pretty close to this; "You know, attacking Iraq wasn't such a bad idea; we attacked them because we could. They had no weapons and we could do it. You know, it...

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