A Bosnian Muslim man was apprehended Monday as he tried to enter the U.S. embassy in Vienna, Austria with an explosive-laden backpack. Another Bosnian was arrested later Monday, suspected of being an accomplice. It is nothing short of a miracle that the suspects were...
Today the Senate passed Bush's war funding request by an overwhelming vote of 92-3. Quite a coincidence about the five who didn't vote: they are all running for President. That's right: the five absentions were Biden (D-DE), Clinton (D-NY), Dodd (D-CT), McCain (R-AZ),...
Empire and Blowback
Debunking Lieberman-Kyle
Talk to Iran, Don’t Bomb Them
We've seen how Seymour Hersh and Gabriel Kolko judge the prospects of an attack on Iran. Now Jim Henley responds to Kolko point by point.
The aide (a senior advisor to President Bush) said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable reality" ... "That's not the way the world...
The UK Daily Mail on Sunday reports that British MPs were surprised to hear a visiting Pentagon official declare: "I hate all Iranians." Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, made the comments this month to...
Seymour Hersh maintains that the Bush administration is determined to strike Iran, though tactics and justifications have changed: This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw...
Narratives of War
