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Some Thoughts about Colonialism on Day 1,230 of the Iraq Occupation
Frank Rich notes ("The Peculiar Disappearance of the War in Iraq") that the Iraq occupation has been going so badly for so long that Americans are tired of hearing about it: CNN will surely remind us today that it is Day 20 of the Israel-Hezbollah war -- now branded...
Qana Last Time: “Just a bunch of [dead] Arabs.”
Israeli government public relations encountered a significant challenge today when the IDF killed dozens of children in the same location that they killed more than a hundred civilians a decade ago.  The fact that both attacks occurred in Qana, Lebanon is the...
Frank Responds to HaCohen
Joshua Frank responds to Ran HaCohen's thoughts on the Hezbollah capture of two Israeli soldiers: First I should say thanks to Ran HaCohen and Antiwar.com for posting a response to my piece, "Kidnapped in Israel or Captured in Lebanon," which attempted to raise the...
Hadar on C-SPAN Sunday Night
At 7:30 p.m. ET on C-SPAN, Antiwar.com contributor Leon Hadar talks about his book, Sandstorm, at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. James Pinkerton (Newsday, Fox News) and Geoffrey Kemp (Nixon Center) provide commentary. During the Q&A portion of the event, the...
Operation Shell Game
Satire Alert! If I ran this as a regular story, I would get in so much trouble. Andy Borowitz on the latest military scheme for Iraq. One of the best parts is the quote from General Schoomaker, which is partially accurate.
Kidnapped in Lebanon? I think not.
Joshua Frank did an important job in bringing two competing stories about the Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizbollah: the main-stream story which says they were abducted on the Israeli side of the border, and the alternative claim that the soldiers were captured by...
Krauthammer’s “Morality”
Comparing the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah guerrillas to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Charles Krauthammer weighs in on the Israeli reponse: "Disproportionate? No. When one is wantonly attacked by an aggressor, one has every right -- legal and...
“Special Relationship” Watch
Tension between the U.S. and Israel, always bubbling just beneath the surface, is popping up all over the place, in spite of George W. Bush's confusion about which country he's really chief executive of. Condoleezaa Rice's trip to Rome, where she argued for a...
Pecking Around
An alert reader (thanks Davey!) pointed out to us another Ed Peck sighting at Democracy Now. Swoooon! It seems that Nasrallah is willing to chit chat with Americans after all.


