Strange, but for some reason, today the Washington Post decided to run the Larry Franklin plea deal story on page B-1 - the Metro section. According to the great libertarian journalist Jim Bovard, in today's Maryland edition, It is below the fold, next to an article...
After spending almost three months in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from jail today. She was released after she had a telephone conversation with the Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, sources said. In that...
So all the left-liberals who thought that the nomination of Bolton to the UN would mean the death of that organization — that it would unleash the U.S. to dominate the world — should consider Bolton's latest move: opposing a bill to withhold funds to the UN. Hmmm....
Writes Andrew Sullivan:This blog broke the story of more Geneva Convention violations recently: the posting of mutilated and dead Iraqis photographed by U.S. soldiers on a website also devoted to porn. Now, there's an investigation. No other blog, to my knowledge,...
Joshua Frank writes:In a recent article in these pages, I criticized Cindy Sheehan for going soft on Hillary Clinton’s warmongering. Well, I was wrong. Sheehan hasn’t gone soft on Clinton; she's attacked the New York senator for her hollow position on the Iraq...
The "why the heck is Nancy Pelosi voting for the war" rally was great: thanks to United for Peace and Justice (Bay Area chapter) for making it possible. It was gratifying to see some of my readers there: they came up and introduced themselves, and I'm glad I could be...
Cindy Sheehan was just arrested during a sit-down protest on the sidewalk in front of the White House.
The sickening manipulation of ethnic and religious passions by the War Party is nowhere more dramatically demonstrated than in this "rapid response alert" sent out by someone in the office of the Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco, the Peninsula ,...
Just got back from the antiwar march in San Francisco: easily 20,000 people out in the streets. I'll have more about it in my Monday column, but I just wanted to let you know about an event I found out about at the rally. "Code Pink," the antiwar group famous for...
UPDATE: truthout just posted this photo: C-Span is streaming live coverage of the Rally in Washington DC here. William Rivers Pitt is live-blogging here and here. UK Indymedia is posting reports on the London Rally here. ***** UPDATE: WRP posts a little after...
