Remember all those cool-looking kids calling for "democracy" and waving orange banners at that giant rock concert that styled itself Ukraine's "Orange Revolution"? No one but us "democrats" here -- right? Wrong. John Laughland, among others, warned us about the...
Another Pro-U.S. Ruler Goes Berserk, Massacres Protestors
As if the slaughter unleashed by Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov, a staunch American ally in the "war on terrorism," wasn't enough, another pro-U.S. commie dictator, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, is mowing down protestors in the streets: 22 dead, so far, dozens wounded, and...
Natan Sharansky: Stop ‘Slandering’ ‘Courageous’ Uzbekistan
Natan Sharansky, author of The Case for Democracy -- which President Bush has said he read with admiration -- certainly can't be accused of consistency. When confronted by Pat Buchanan on the kind of "democracy" he envisions for the Palestinians, Sharansky balked:...
Israeli Trojan Horse
Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, relates this exchange with Alexander "I'm in charge here" Haig during the Watergate imbroglio: "It was late in the evening on May 16, 1973, and I was in the Washington bureau of the Times, immersed in yet another story about...
Dangerous links
No, Stupid, not between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Antiwar.com reader Eric S. has had some problems with one of Justin Raimondo's hyperlinks (not the same sort of frustrations as doofus the Trotskycon):I often check the links just for the sake of, well,...
Listen to Milton
Nobel laureate and neolibertarian favorite Milton Friedman gives his protégés something to ignore:Friedman supported Bush's first-term candidacy, but he is more accurately libertarian than conservative and not a reliable Bush ally. Progress in his goal of rolling back...
The Incredible Shrinking MSM
Apparently, the Associated Press and Reuters are no longer part of it. From a Sean Hannity interview with Matt Drudge:SEAN HANNITY: Just before coming on the air, I check the Drudge Report. You have a huge blockbuster story that is up there now saying that the...
Condoleezza Rice: Ignoramus or Solipsist?
Byron Williams shares this gem from a recent Condoleezza Rice speech:And when you think they [Iraqis] aren't going to make it -- when you want to criticize what they're doing and it's taking a long time and this and that -- just remember, not to this date, have they...
Thank you, Steve Rosen
The Israel National News Service reports that the Mossad is in the midst of an internal debate over what to name the spy agency's new main building: The Director, Meir Dagan, wants to honor Mossad agent Eli Cohen -- hanged by the Syrians in 1965 -- but others are...
Oh, Brother!
Christopher Hitchens, the ex-Trotskyist poppinjay and blathering drunk who has made a second career out of hailing the Bush Doctrine, has a very talented and quite rational brother, and Peter Hitchens seems to have his sibling's number down cold. At a recent event...
