That possibility has been brought up by a close aide to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani: KUWAIT, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric could issue an edict that would ban Iraqis backing a U.S.-appointed council and spark mass protests if Washington...
Bill Evers Goes Neocon
It’s funny, but Bill Evers used to be one of those libertarians who went around giving everyone else a purity test, and he often found them wanting. Back in the good old days, he used to write a column for Libertarian Vanguard, the newspaper of the Radical Caucus,...
The Triumphant Return from Iraq of The Once-Great Libertarian
Today's Wall Street Journal as an OpEd by one of my oldest friends.I got involved with the libertarian movement in 1972. One of the first libertarians I met and quickly became friends with was Bill Evers. In 1973 I initiated a faction fight in California's Peace and...
Mayonnaise of Mass Destruction
A Halliburton whistleblower gets fired for trying to spare American soldiers from food poisoning. Don't read this just before eating. On July, 17, 2003, Heather Yarbrough flew to Kuwait to start a new job: monitoring the quality and safety of food served to soldiers...
Calling David Brooks!
From The Jewish Week: President George W. Bush will do better among Jewish voters in November than he did in 2000, even though Jews are much less supportive of his Iraq and anti-terror policies than other Americans. And former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who hopes to be...
Jack and the phantom journal
USA Today's star foreign correspondent, Jack Kelley, landed in hot water over fabricating a story about a journal purporting to "prove" Serbs were "ethnically cleansing" Kosovo. After an internal investigation, Kelley resigned from the paper. Case closed? Hardly. The...
I Wouldn’t Call It a Mass Movement, but…
Monday's column has generated a lot of reader response. It has also gotten plugged by the Christian Science Monitor, FAIR, and Jim Henley.
Michiko Kakutani rips Frum & Perle’s “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”
While enjoying my breakfast coffee this morning, my day was further brightened upon reading an entry by Lew Rockwell at his blog referencing the following New York Times book review by Michiko Kakutani of David Frum and Richard Perle's new warmongering little classic....
The Forgotten Victims: Iraqi Palestinians
While all Iraqis are suffering as a result of this totally unnecessary war, Iraqis of Palestinian descent are perhaps worse off than most of their countrymen. Jo Wilding gives a brief first-hand account of what their lives are like now: She lives in a tent with UNHCR...
Fighting on the Frontier: Pakistan-Afghanistan
Victoria Schofield, a specialist on South Asia, is the author of "Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia." In this commentary for the Daily Star (Lebanon), she discusses the tense and dangerous border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan and how it has...
