News-wise, this week sure is starting out with a bang -- and, hey, Monday isn't even over yet! No, I don't mean the Jackson verdict. It looks like there's going to be breaking news on the Bolton nomination around 10:30 tomorrow morning. Stay tuned ... The minute I...
Bush Pronouncements Boost Hezbollah Vote
The White House calls for democracy in Lebanon have not produced the results they were hoping for. In yesterday's third round of voting, neocon poster boy Walid Jumblatt was trounced by a Syrian-alligned coaltion led by former general Michel Aoun. Even more of a...
Suckling at the Breast of Empire
Billmon, writing in his brilliant weblong, Whiskey Bar: "If the symbol of the Roman state was a statue of a she wolf suckling the city's founders, Romulus and Remus, then I think America should have one of a sow, suckling every defense contractor, hack politician and...
Conservatives for Espionage?
That's right: conservatives are now apologizing for espionage. The arrest of Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin is just the beginning of the dramatic court case that will expose Israel's amen corner in the U.S. as a fifth column in the service of a foreign power -- with...
War Party Takes Aim at WTC Memorial
The War Street Journal recently published an op ed piece by one Debra Burlingame, in which the author claims that the Freedom Center planned for the re-built WTC -- re-dubbed the "Freedom Tower" -- has been "hijacked" by those gosh-darned America-hating left-wingers,...
The Return of “Fragging”?
Check out my latest post on the Huffington Post blog: it's about "fragging," a practice much in evidence during the Vietnam era when hundreds of American military officers were killed by their own soldiers -- and, no, we aren't talking about "friendly fire" here....
Hey, Lookee Lookee!
Wow! I've made the big-time! The Huffington Post has asked me to blog for them -- and here's my first contribution. There I am, right alongside Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Catharine Crier, Gary Hart, Jann Wenner, Karen Finley (!), Erica Jong, Paul Krassner, my old...
A Little Goes a Long Way
Balkanalysis, run by frequent Antiwar.com contributor Chris Deliso, needs your help to improve its services. And they're not asking for a lot – your contribution would certainly be appreciated.
American security guards attack US Marines?
Does this mean American private contractors have joined the Iraqi insurgents, or what?Sixteen private American security guards are under investigation for shooting at U.S. Marines and Iraqi civilians during a three-hour spree west of Baghdad, the military said...
Ethiopia’s Zenawi: Neocon
If neoconservatism is a biographical creed, denoting someone who has evolved from some variant of Leninism or Marxism into a supporter of George W. Bush's foreign policy of American global military dominance, then President Meles Zenawi certainly fits the bill. A...
