Writes Andrew Sullivan:This blog broke the story of more Geneva Convention violations recently: the posting of mutilated and dead Iraqis photographed by U.S. soldiers on a website also devoted to porn. Now, there's an investigation. No other blog, to my knowledge,...
Cindy Sheehan Rails at the Democrats
Joshua Frank writes:In a recent article in these pages, I criticized Cindy Sheehan for going soft on Hillary Clinton’s warmongering. Well, I was wrong. Sheehan hasn’t gone soft on Clinton; she's attacked the New York senator for her hollow position on the Iraq...
Mau-Mauing Pelosi
The "why the heck is Nancy Pelosi voting for the war" rally was great: thanks to United for Peace and Justice (Bay Area chapter) for making it possible. It was gratifying to see some of my readers there: they came up and introduced themselves, and I'm glad I could be...
Sheehan Arrested at White House
Cindy Sheehan was just arrested during a sit-down protest on the sidewalk in front of the White House.
War Party Mobilizes to Protect Pelosi
The sickening manipulation of ethnic and religious passions by the War Party is nowhere more dramatically demonstrated than in this "rapid response alert" sent out by someone in the office of the Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco, the Peninsula ,...
Antiwar San Francisco — Tell Nancy Pelosi She’d Better Shape Up
Just got back from the antiwar march in San Francisco: easily 20,000 people out in the streets. I'll have more about it in my Monday column, but I just wanted to let you know about an event I found out about at the rally. "Code Pink," the antiwar group famous for...
AntiWar Rally coverage
UPDATE: truthout just posted this photo: C-Span is streaming live coverage of the Rally in Washington DC here. William Rivers Pitt is live-blogging here and here. UK Indymedia is posting reports on the London Rally here. ***** UPDATE: WRP posts a little after...
And We Call Them “Terrorists”?
I asked once before: "Is the United States a Terrorist State"?
The Straussians and Their Consequences
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Anne Norton about her book, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, and with professor Juan Cole about the situation in Basra and the Iraqi constitution. Update: Antiwar.com correspondent Debbie...
The War Party Conquers Cato?
A few months ago, Mark Brady, over at the Liberty and Power blog, noted that the libertarian Cato Institute had not published or posted anything about the Iraq war since the beginning of the year. Hmmmmm, I thought: an ill wind blows. It wasn’t a good sign for the...
