Peregrine Worsthorne on Conrad Black

The former editor of the Sunday Telegraph on mini-Murdoch: My disagreements with Conrad have arisen since I stopped working for him. I've been critical in the past decade because he's turned The Telegraph into an American-propaganda and Israel-propaganda sheet which I...

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…And Nothing but the Truth?

What happens if an Agent of Empire disobeys his masters and tells the truth, for once? He gets fired, and his work dropped into the Memory Hole. Such is the case of Chris Stephen, of the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), who found out...

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The Sunni Triangle as the Next Okinawa

D.W. MacKenzie deconstructs the popularity of the Marshall Plan, noting that its benefits to Japan and West Germany have been grossly exaggerated. But if two devastated countries with few natural resources recovered without handouts, why send $87 billion (first...

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RE Mark Byron

Heroic reader Lloyd sends this article about what happens to people who think the wrong thoughts aloud: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A man who made a remark about a "burning Bush" during the president's March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to 37 months in...

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Oh, That’s What They Meant by “Democracy”

Blogger Mark Byron--check him out on Glenn Reynolds' blogroll-- daydreams about building a Republican supermajority by assassinating 21 U.S. Senators, 5 Supreme Court justices, and a slew of bystanders. If only the warbloggers had told us that this is the sort of...

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PROOF! (of spin)

Big Story: Neocons Leak Neocon Memo, then Report On It Today, Fox News anchors are repeatedly mentioning the blockbuster story "proving" a long-time link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. The leak was made to a truly unbiased source, the Weekly Standard. The...

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US Death Toll Tops 400 (now 418)

Updated 11/15/03 6:50 pm EST:The death toll hit 418 today, with the downing of two Black Hawk helicopters in Mosul, killing at least 17, and the death of another GI in a roadside bombing. While the Black Hawk crash appears to be the result of a collision, witnesses...

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Napoleon, Bismarck, Hitler… Bush?

Frederick W. Kagan, author, and teacher of military history at West Point, is a tax-and-spend hegemonist. In "The art of war," an article from the November, 2003, The New Criterion, which I found on the excellent aldaily.com site, Kagan warns about the dangers of the...

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More on Tiger Force

If you haven't read Nick Turse's follow-up to the Toledo Blade's recent series on Vietnam atrocities, please do. And because I'm feeling especially dyspeptic today, I ask you to please forward Nick's article to every gung ho jingo in your address book.

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