From Laura Rozen, writing on the Mother Jones blog: "It was only then, after the Serbian occupation had been driven out, that I learned an ugly lesson: that sometimes when the oppressed are liberated, they act with the brutality of their former tormenters. In the...
OmiGOD! -- did you know that Obama is not only a "secret smoker," he's also a secret member of the Communist Party? By today's standards, the former is much worse, but the always reliably nutty Cliff Kincaid -- I once appeared on a tv show with him, in which he called...
I must register my dissent on Sam Koritz's thesis -- explained in a two-part post on antiwar.com -- Â that "what the country wants" is a white, Protestant, male of northern European descent who is "mildly" opposed to the Iraq war. From what I can make of it, Sam's...
Listen to Philip Weiss, one of the smartest writers around, on the Israel lobby and Obama: the Lobby, he says, considered Obama "a green no-account," and they all jumped on Hillary's bandwagon without realizing that the wheels were about to come off, while the neocons...
In my previous post I argued that since (1) the only Dem candidates who've been able to win the presidency in the past 4 decades have been white, Protestant, southern males; (2) the country strongly prefers a Democrat for Pres in '08; and (3) most Americans regret...
Wikileaks.org, which has published documents such as the Rules of Engagement for Iraq and Guantanamo Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures, has been ordered to remove its content from that URL by a California court. The court issued an injunction at the request of...
The national Libertarian Party (LP) organization has taken their strongest position in favor of withdrawal from Iraq. At their national committee meeting yesterday in Las Vegas, the following resolution passed overwhelmingly. WHEREAS the government of the United...
Polls & the politics betting markets suggest that Obama is the candidate most likely to be elected president. I think a McCain victory is more likely so, to get my 2 cents in before the post-McCain victory deluge, I'll explain in advance why I think the Dems will...
As Michael Lind pointed out in a brilliant essay published by The Nation almost exactly four years ago, Winston Churchill has been an icon of neo-conservatism for as long as it has existed. Thus, when the neo-conservatives had more confidence in George W. Bush —...
Thanks very much to O.E., who writes: It was shocking, but a pleasant surprise, to find Philip Giraldi's "Found in Translation" article reprinted, at least in part, in today's Dallas Morning News. They did leave out the part about the Valerie Plame, but with graphics...
