Operation "Lightning" has supposedly been launched and the first casualties have been a 3 Iraqi guards killed by an insurgent car bomb at the Iraqi Ministry of Oil on Palestine Street in Baghdad and a British soldier killed by a roadside bomb in the Sadrist stronghold...

John Cole is going on my blogroll for this series of posts. John Cole Rick Moran John Cole It's a treat to read such a well argued conservative criticism of the idiotic arguments by Malkin, Hewitt and Barber. I can't remember how I came across this, so if it was your...

Today's New York Times (print edition) has a full-page advertisement on page 5 from the Council for the National Interest Foundation headlined: AIPAC’s Agenda is Not America’sThe ad is well-done and makes excellent points, including: ISRAEL, STOP SPYING ON AMERICA! I...

Forced shaving of prisoners and tattooing. Where have we seen this before?

Only follow this link if you're one of the reality-based community. Otherwise, you'd best keep your illusions intact by sticking to the pure, unfiltered Chrenkoff version: Good electricity news from Iraq Via Jim Henley

Under the absurdly self-evident headline, "Many Iraqis See Sectarian Roots in New Killings" (duh) the NY Times, after relating how Hassan al-Nuaimi, an Iraqi Sunni cleric, was found dumped in an empty lot with a hole drilled in his head and both eyes gouged out,...

Drudge is running a report about an exchange between the only White House correspondent who matters - Helen Thomas - and White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. It goes like this;Q The other day -- in fact, this week, you said that we, the United States, is in...

Due to some personal obligations, there won't be a Balkan Express this week. Look for a new article next Thursday.

Justin Raimondo appeared again on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Wednesday morning. He discussed the Larry Franklin/AIPAC affair. The show segment is now available archived on the Democracy Now! Website. The show will also be on today: Direct-TV, channel 375, from...

"What no one seemed to notice. . . was the ever widening gap. . .between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not...