Something Eli said the other day has been bugging me when I read news articles about the Iraqi resistance, because I never really noticed it before.With MacWorld approaching, I'm reminded of the famous Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field. But Jobs has got nothing on...
Mercy Corps is a reputable aid agency that has swiftly begun providing assistance to Tsunami-damaged areas in Asia, and accepts online donations (I just donated and they acknowledged immediately and it was painless). Here is some info on what they are doing now, from...
Ralph Raico writes:On Monday, the indefatigable, indispensable Justin Raimondo gave us a column titled, The Fallacy of 39: Why is every petty tyrant dubbed the new Hitler? That is a very good question. Here is a possible answer. For many millions of Americans, the...
How can anyone be unmoved by the images of devastation? With the billions of dollars spent on deliberate destruction (wars), we should be motivated to counter with our individual help to the victims of this natural disaster. I have been most impressed with the work of...
(see 10 for introduction) 0.5 next Count the columns, John Nichols insists, but the result has been certified--that's 109 down, one to go and he'll have made it through the year without using the word "Israel." An earlier countdown entry contained a gratuitous...
Various ideas for dealing with Sunni abstinence from the elections slated to be held in Iraq have been floated recently from everyone from the USG to the current Iraqi authorities and Osama bin Laden. The problem seems to flow from the fact that the Iraqi vote,...
Via Matt Welch at Reason, on the recently discovered FBI torture memos: The FBI memos, which included more graphic descriptions of detainee abuse (including "strangulation, beatings, [and] placement of lit cigarettes into the detainees ear openings"), bore an uncanny...
The Daily Yomiuri, the leading newspaper in Japan, has chosen Antiwar.com as their favorite website of 2004. They choose six favorites, and Antiwar.com is listed first: For news and opinion related to conflicts around the world, Antiwar.com (www.antiwar.com) continues...
There are approximately 3 million Kurds living in Iraq. 1.7 million of them have signed a petition requesting independence, which was handed to the UN Wednesday, December 22. A Referendum Movement in Kurdistan spokesman says a delegation from their organisation has...
Yesterday the Israelis adopted measures to "facilitate" the Palestinian elections. One might wonder how arresting Mustafa Barghouti fits the Israeli definition of election facilitation. Maybe they mean that they're facilitating the election of a specific candidate? At...
