By the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others.
John Yoo opposes a U.S. War
You read it here first. Or, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, second. In today's WSJ, Yoo actually speaks out against a war. Yoo, remember is the Berkeley law professor who believes that the U.S. president has way more power than the Constitution appears to...
US Death Toll in Iraq Reaches 4,000
Today, when 4 more US soldiers are killed by an IED.
Ellsberg remarks at Die-in, San Francisco
[These were my remarks to several hundred activists and supporters participating in a die-in in downtown San Francisco at noon today, March 19, 2008, on the fifth anniversary of the launching of shock and awe in Iraq. All those blocking traffic--surprisingly, for a...
Let Us Not Forget
After describing the carnage of the World War I battle of the Somme, future president Herbert Hoover remarked that in another even more dreadful sense he saw inhuman policies of war:Â Â That was the determination on both sides to bring subjection by starvation. The...
Obama Gets PC
Patriotically correct, that is, the most common and most oppressive form of political correctness in our post-9/11 world. From this morning's speech: But the remarks [by Rev. Jeremiah Wright] that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial. They...
Bush Earned Impeachment 5 Years Ago Today
In a memo sent to Congress five years ago today, Bush decreed that he was attacking Iraq “to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized,...
Perle, the New York Times, and Chutzpah
Marking the impending fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Sunday’s influential ‘Outlook’ section of the New York Times asked “nine experts on military and foreign affairs to reflect on their attitudes in the spring of 2003 and to comment on the one...
Ron Paul on the Surveillance Bill
Ron Paul opposes both the Republican and Democratic proposals to renew the telecom surveillance bill. Following is his speech before the US House of Representatives, Friday, March 14, 2008. I rise in opposition to this latest attempt to undermine our personal...
State Dept: Criticism of Israel = Anti-Semitism?
In the most recent edition of its annual “Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism†released Thursday, the State Department — and hence the U.S. government — moves ever more closely to a long-standing neo-conservative tenet: that criticism of Israel or Israeli...


