Josh Marshall is on vacation for a few days, but he leaves us with this tantalizing claim:I’m going to be taking a breather from TPM for a few days. I’ll be away tucked away on some island somewhere far, far away. If something truly earth-shattering happens I may pop...
US appointed Iraqi "Foreign Minister" Falah Hassan al-Naqib says he will impose "martial law" in response to ongoing violence, particularly the horrific series of car bombings, 20 in the past month alone, if he feels it necessary. The question would be, what sort of...
Paul Johnson beheaded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Warning: Graphic
Dec. 2001:Although Bush administration officials have openly discussed the possibility that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein may be the next target in the war on terrorism, Putin said he has seen no evidence that Iraq finances terrorists.Seven months ago:"We are do not...
Vlad Putin announced today that Russian intelligence told Bush before the war that Iraq was going to attack the U.S. Why hasn't Dubya shared this with us before? It sure would have bolstered his thin case for invading and saved him a lot of trouble in the time since....
Bill Clinton's memoir hit the shelves this week, pompously titled "My Life." The philanderer-in-chief also went on CBS' "60 Minutes" to hype the book defending his emperorship. According to agency reports, Clinton confessed he messed around with Monica Lewinsky "for...
I have been writing to the Website La Voz de Aztlan for several weeks now. They have been the main site promoting the bogus "Iraqi Rape" photos that have been circulating around the web. These photos are actually from a bad porno produced before the invasion of Iraq,...
That's right, this is the thousandth-and-first entry on Antiwar.com/blog. Some lower page news you may have missed this week: *Nazi War Criminal an Early CIA Agent. Yay Greatest Generation! *Brits Send Home 83 Pregnant Soldiers. "No, honey, you weren't an accident --...
I was on welfare back in the 1960s. That was a way of showing contempt for society's "work/progress" ethic, and if the state was willing to subsidize me while I protested the war and volunteered at the co-op, fine. Caseworkers loved my brownies, but the joke was on...
I almost never post hate mail. The posting of hate mail on blogs is usually a passive-aggressive form of hasty generalization – Ah, look what a bunch of raving lunatics/bigots my detractors are! But occasionally I get a piece that is truly instructive, one that wrings...
