In keeping with the US policy of leaving no aspect of the invasion or occupation of Iraq unbotched, the American military is currently assaulting and laying siege to the Turkmen city of Tal Afar. In order to provoke maximum opposition and outrage, they are being...
On Thursday, Congress passed a resolution that was amended to specifically link the War in Iraq to 9/11. The sponsor of the resolution, Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) responded to critics, saying "there is a direct connection between the war in Iraq and the bombing of Sept. 11."...
I think Matt Taibbi has a great idea here:In the conformist atmosphere of the late 50s and early 60s, the individual was a threat. Like communist Russia, the system then was so weak that it was actually threatened by a single person standing up and saying, "This is...
At Commondreams, Ira Chernus explains how the '60s prepared us to live with the fact that we will never, ever know for sure who was behind the 9/11 attacks. Whoops, I had always thought the counterculture's primary message was never, ever eat fried food. Are we to...
If you aren't reading James Wolcott's blog, you're missing elegant bullseyes like this.Elections are about the future. Or so we're constantly told. But the future has barely made a guest appearance during this election campaign. And not the recent past of no WMDs, Abu...
On George W. Bush's National Guard documents, scroll down to page 17, and you'll find something askew that the big boys refuse to touch. What I want to know is: has our commander-in-chief had his cholera shots???? During the summer of '68, when he was shooting up...
I understand the sentiment and the political message behind demonstrations like this, but every time I see a news account about Americans mourning the "grim milestone" of over a thousand dead in the Iraq War-of-Choice, I can't help but resent the fact that no...
Oh, this is just wonderful. Via Abu Aardvark, we read: Two intense military insurgencies in Iraq, with the Sunnis and Shia, not enough for you? Do you agree that everyone wants to fight in Fallujah, but only real men want to go to Kirkuk? Do you think that if a spot...
Max Borders, program director at the Institute for Humane Studies, has penned one of the most bizarre (and condescending) arguments for liberventionism I have ever seen. Jeffrey Tucker at the Mises Institute has put up a lengthy posthumous rebuttal from IHS founder...
Speaking of Al Qaeda, Al Jazeera is playing a new Ayman Al-Zawahri video, in which he taunts the US:Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahri has forecast a US "defeat" in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a videotape aired on Aljazeera television. "The American defeat in Iraq and...
