John B. Judis has an article 'Sifting Through the Rubble' in the October 1 American Prospect that presents a "balance sheet" of US "failures" in Iraq. According to Judis, (besides generally spreading chaos) the invasion has: - Reversed Arab efforts to reform Saudi...

I put this up as a comment on Gene Healy's blog earlier, so I might as well post it here, too. Healy wrote about Bush's recent interview with Brit Hume on Fox, and one of the funnier/scarier moments in the exchange when Bush said that he gets all of his info from Rice...

I'd rather see Congressman John J. Duncan (R-TN) in the White House. He has consistently opposed the war on Iraq, and for reasons I find more compelling. The speech linked to on Antiwar.com today is great, but it's what he's been saying all along. Check out this...

So a lot of readers are upset that we don't talk up the Kucinich campaign more often. Well, the Massachusetts branch of Kucinich for Prez is running my essay on Howard Dean from a few weeks ago, so I'll give them a little shout-out. Happy?

Faith Fippinger, a 62-year-old retired teacher, faces jail for travelling to Iraq before the war. On what grounds? For three months she travelled around Iraq, guarding oil refineries, teaching in schools and working in hospitals. But when she returned home there was a...

During an April 22nd American Enterprise Institute briefing on the war in Iraq, Charles Krauthammer said: "Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We've had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven't found any, we will have a...

Gutsy essay in Ha'aretz about Israel's brutal youth. Batya Gur confronts a group of female soldiers harassing an elderly Palestinian: This was not one of the greater and more visible evils that take place around us daily, nor was it a disaster, only an insidious and...

From a reader: "The Clintonoids at FAIR"? Cute phrasing, which always seems to be the priority with you, but in this case at the expense of the truth. If you wanted to reveal your ignorance of FAIR's stance you could scarcely have chosen a better phrase. Just a few...

I mailed my article on sanctions-debunker Matt Welch to Welch, Reason, and Beirut Daily Star editor Michael Young. Only Young responded. You can find his response and my retort here on Young's blog. More updates later.

I enjoy reading Brendan O'Neill, because he manages to be thoughtful and provocative even when he's wrong. His new article on Spiked-online.com is a good example. It's called "Pre-emptive Inaction?," and in it, O'Neill slams the pragmatic case against war: [The]...