Yglesias Shrugged

The reaction to the Hagel-for-President boom, on both the left and the neocon right, continues to confirm my jaundiced view of both: "Outside of the foreign policy realm," avers Matt Yglesias, "there's not much to like here from a liberal point of view." That's pretty...

Who The Heck Is Cenk Uygur?

It isn't just the neocon bloggers and Dick Cheney who are gritting their teeth over the rise of Senator Chuck Hagel as the new paladin of the antiwar movement: Cenk Uygur, over at the Huffpuff -- otherwise known as the bulletin board of the DNC -- chimes in with a...

Robert Byrd on Bush’s Troop Surge Plan

Long-time opponent of the war in Iraq, Senator Robert Byrd, recently remarked about Bush's troop surge plan: "At the outset of this war, the Bush administration believed, apparently, that democracy could be exported through the barrel of a gun. That belief was wrong...

The Real Hillary

This video (hat tip: Lew Rockwell) is revealing in a number of different ways. First of all, it shows up Hillary Clinton for what she truly is: an opportunist who is only tenuously acquainted with the truth. She now claims that if she had known then what she knows...

Richard Cummings

Antiwar Radio: Richard Cummings Why did America invade Iraq? Oil? Israel? ... Jets, bombs and taxed dollars. So says Richard Cummings as he explains the story behind his Playboy.com article "Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels": the direct role in policy-making...

Big Corps Back Gitmo Defenders

"Two weeks after a senior Pentagon official suggested that corporations should pressure their law firms to stop assisting detainees at Guantanamo Bay, major companies have turned the tables on the Pentagon and issued statements supporting the law firms' work on behalf...

DC Antiwar Pics & Quips

This was my favorite photo from the exuberant antiwar demonstration in DC on Saturday. Where is the Secret Service when you need them? (Probably out chasing down other 81 year olds who wrote vague letters to the editor). I have another 10 photos (including a full size...

Barry Lando

Antiwar Radio: Barry Lando Barry Lando, author of Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush explains some of the history of that unfortunate land. MP3 here. Barry Lando's journalistic experience includes 25...

Steve Clemons

Antiwar Radio: Steve Clemons The New America Foundation’s Steve Clemons discusses Lawrence Wilkerson, Flynt Leverett, Iran's offer to do whatever they were told and how Cheney destroyed the opportunity to negotiate and whether the secret war against Iran and Syria...