It's an affront to every cynical bone and iconoclastic nerve in my body, but here goes: Jeremy Scahill kicks ass. Read this interview with Wesley Clark and tell me I'm wrong. Jeremy Scahill for the White House (press corps)!

Your moment of Zen, courtesy of John Ashcroft: Weapons of mass destruction, including evil chemistry and evil biology, are all matters of great concern, not only to the United States, but also to the world community. Think Ashcroft just let that slip? He has already...

Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional The AP reports: "For the first time, a federal judge has declared unconstitutional a section of the USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act that bars giving expert advice or assistance to groups designated foreign terrorist...

No column today because of an appallingly absentminded screw-up on my part, but there will be something this week. Who knows? Maybe my shtick will play better on a Wednesday. In lieu of anything original, I recommend two articles by up and coming writers. Both are...

Before there was the "empire of bases" there was classical imperialism with its empire of colonies. Some of the US elite (political, cultural, and financial), from the Mugwumps to Mark Twain to billionaire (in current dollars) Andrew Carnegie, energetically lobbied...

Says Israeli historian Benny Morris, who also concedes that the volume of Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in 1948 surprised even him. A lot of gems in this Ha'aretz interview. Check it out. UPDATE 1/25: I fixed the broken link to the interview. (Hat tip to...

The rise of the movable type printing press – "the tyrant's foe and the people's friend" – curiously coincided with the fall of slavery, and technological progress continues to change politics, from Antiwar.com to Move On's national video parties. The cutting edge now...

Citing the high cost of maintaining their contingent of peacekeepers, Nicaragua warns it may have to pull out of the Iraq coalition. Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, has 115 troops in Iraq. Most are medical personnel and landmine...

The lunatic irony of intervention: How the U.S. government encouraged Iranian mujahedeen to "liberate" Bosnia. We won't (haven't) live(d) to regret such policies, I'm sure. What blowback?

Steve Reed sends along the following observations about selective reading at the Ayn Rand Institute: I saw your Antiwar.com Blog entries from about two weeks back about the Ayn Rand Institute. The slice you've captured doesn't include, however, a particular subtle...