After Georgetown University decided against renewing his contract, a brief stay as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and his efforts to get a post at the Brookings Institution came to naught, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy...
James Bond’s Secret Plot to Occupy the Crimea
With MGM eagerly promoting the newest James Bond film Quantum of Solace, the 22nd such film from Eon Productions, Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko should be enjoying the spotlight as the latest Bond girl. She plays a Russian-Bolivian agent in the movie, in which Bond...
A ‘Warning’ To Us All
“Patriotism is not pinning a flag pin to one lapel to free up both hands, so you can tear up the U.S. Constitution.†-Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in The Warning. The new production company/website Truthtopower.tv has just released its powerful first film, The Warning,...
The Barefoot Strip
The Free Gaza Movement's chartered boat "Dignity" arrived earlier today in the Gaza Strip, loaded down with humanitarian aid supplies for the blockaded populace, but there's one thing they probably didn't think to pack, and is going to be increasingly hard to come by...
Obsession Gets Some Overdue Mainstream Attention
Obsession, the Islamophobic video that has been distributed via newspaper inserts to some 28 million households in key swing states this fall, is getting some overdue negative attention from the mainstream media at last. The Washington Post carried an article about...
@Bin Laden sez OMG! Jihad!
Hold on to your MP3 players and Palm Pilots. The tragically hip in US Army intelligence have discovered the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. The crux of the draft by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion is that terrorists could make use of the 140...
No Noam on Base?
A group of South Korean military officers is pressing a court to overturn the military’s ban, announced earlier this year, on books which it considers dangerously pro-North Korean, anti-US, or anti-capitalist. The military says the “seditious†books would hinder...
‘King of Salsa’ Turned Accused Spy Speaks of His Magical Powers
Iranian-born British Army interpreter Daniel James, who is accused of spying for Iran, has too interesting of a backstory not to mention. With a background in body building and kick boxing, James says he eventually rose to the title of "Danny James, King of Salsa."...
Did the Marines Die for Absolute Power?
This is the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Marines. President Reagan sent in U.S. troops to try to help stabilize Lebanon after the Israeli invasion (and massacres by Israeli proxies in Palestinian refugee camps) the prior...
Libertarians and the Old Right
For those interested, here is my debut in the American Conservative — a review of Justin Raimondo's Reclaiming the American Right. And Jim, I don't know who these pro-Palin libertarians are, but I sure ain't one!! In fact, I was an early detractor.


