Hey, check out a promising website devoted to organizing the Antiwar League, a left-right alliance against the Iraq war. (Hat tip: Mark Brady). From their website: "What is lacking today is a permanent, populist, broad-based political force to challenge the worldview...
McCain, Again
John McCain -- possibly the worst, most persistent warmonger of them all -- is running for President, again, and he's on "Meet the Press" right this moment, telling the American people that they're wrong about Iraq -- we aren't totally losing. No, the insurgency isn't...
Terror Incorporated
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Loretta Napoleoni, author of the new book Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars behind the Terror Networks from 4-5 pm eastern time. Update: Show's over, Archives
Wonder if She Still Thinks This
Judge Janice Rogers Brown, in an August 2000 speech to the Institute for Justice [.pdf]:[D]emocracy need not be a good regime — as we are proving every day. Freedom and democracy are not synonymous. Indeed, one of the grave errors of American foreign policy is the...
Zen and the Art of Neoconservatism
From Kevin Carson's neocon lexicon/guide to inner peace: Moral Relativism. Aka historicism. The denial of any unified, objective standard of value. The diametric opposite of Moral Equivalence (q.v.). Moral Equivalence. Judgment of the United States government by the...
Out and About
Some interesting reads I've come across lately: *Worried about the military's recruiting slump? Well, don't just stand there being a chickenhawk. Pull out a feather and hand it to a younger chickenhawk. *Why the ChiComs are still around and the Soviets aren't. *The...
The PATRIOT Act Is Bullsh*t
Yes, apologists for Big Brother are a**holes, and unless the frank description of them as such (and, oh yeah, nudity) offends you, you'll enjoy this Penn & Teller video on the PATRIOT Act.
Raimondo on MSNBC TV
'I'll be on "Connected Coast to Coast" hosted by Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley, on Friday(noon EST/9am PST). It's a segment about military recruiting.. and why the numbers are so low. (Duh!) Right-wing nut-bar Cliff Kincaid (of "Accuracy" in Media) is going to...
US sergeant charged for fragging commanders
As AntiWar.com's Justin Raimondo asked, "A nation at war with itself -- who will win that one?"A U-S Army staff sergeant has been charged with killing his two commanders last week at a base outside Baghdad. The military says it's believed to be the first case of an...
Milton Friedman Blasts US Interventionism
In an interview earlier this month in the San Francisco Chronicle, Milton Friedman speaks on many issues (enough to madden some of our readers). Buried in the interview is a gem: Progress in his goal of rolling back the role of government, he said, is "being greatly...
