It will be interesting to see how Tony squirms out of this one: Diplomats and peers have joined scientists and churchmen to urge Prime Minister Tony Blair to publish a death toll in the U.S.-led war in Iraq. In an unusual open letter to the premier made available to...
“Illuminating an Iraqi’s face” – Approved!
Leaked: FBI witnessed Gitmo torture
FBI agents witnessed "highly aggressive" interrogations and mistreatment of terror suspects at the US prison camp in Cuba starting in 2002 - more than a year before the prison abuse scandal broke in Iraq - according to a letter a senior US Justice Department official...
You’re Fired!
OK, one last time: For those who want my head, the relevant contact info is here. Some of you apparently think, based on my old bio, that I am a teacher. Wrong. I am a full-time editor at Antiwar.com, and I have no problem with consumers complaining about my product....
Borders Finale
In my initial post on Max Borders, I wrote that his standard operating procedure is to(1) make assertions so outrageously stupid and/or vicious that they far surpass the worst caricatures of right-wingers; (2) whine that those who either recoil in horror or laugh...
You’d Think I Called for Someone to Boil Him Alive
True to form, Max Borders wails that he's been misunderstood, and that he's the victim of "mafia" tactics because I included a link to the Institute for Humane Studies at the end of this post. To be clear, I didn't call for anyone to demand Borders be fired, and I...
200-Fold Increase in Spending… for What?
Who'd think the US Department of Health and Human Services would make for such interesting fodder? While its not near so glamorous as the resignation of, say, John Ashcroft or Tom Ridge, the closing comments of the outgoing Tommy Thompson raise some compelling...
That “broken” resistance in Iraq
"Gliding" toward elections in Iraq:In the second major assault on Baghdad's police force in two days, two car bombs -including at least one detonated by a suicide attacker -exploded next to an Iraqi police station just outside Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday, killing...
I Never Thought I’d Have to Write This
I'm wary of people who pick the worst among their opponents to "prove" the superiority of their own position. I won't say Viktor Yushchenko is an anti-Semite just because this nut believes in a kosher conspiracy (literally). I won't say National Review is full of...
Interview with Matt Barganier
Check out our Über-Editor Matt Barganier tonight on the "Peter Principle" guest hosted by Scott Horton, from 7-9PM CT. You can Listen Live on the internet.


