How to Spot a Militarist

He sneers at peaceful free enterprise (or the study thereof) while bellowing about the glories of the state – especially those segments of it most prone to snapping bones and spilling blood.

Earth to Arianna: Back to the Drawing Board, Dah-link!

The much-touted breathlessly-anticipated Huffington Post -- a blog-site edited by Arianna Huffington, neo-con socialite-turned-socialist, where the Hollywood glittterati blog speak to the Huddled Masses -- debuts this morning, and all I can say it ..... Yawn! Here's...

“Intelligence” leads Marines into a trap?

This report of a botched raid is so bizarre that I had to read it repeatedly while trying to piece together the information it contains.  So, let's see.  We read that, operating on the theory that "foreign fighters" are "flowing into...

In Case You Missed It…

The Secret Downing Street Memo On Sunday, May 1st (fittingly), the Sunday Times reported the existence of a top secret memo from Number 10 Downing Street dated July 23, 2002. It is definitive proof that the "bad intelligence" that fooled the American people and our...

Ray McGovern and Gordon Prather on the Radio

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Ray McGovern of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity about the absence of intelligence and sanity in our government, and Antiwar.com's own Gordon Prather will return in the second hour to...

The Franklin Affair and the Terror Enigma

The recent arrest of Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin on charges that he handed over vital U.S. secrets to Israel recalls the wave of stories about Israeli spies in the U.S. in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Weeks after the attacks, the Washington Post ran a...

Real Liberalism Resurging in UK?

This guy thinks so:If the negative reaction it has incurred from both right and left is any indication, the LibDems' distinctly liberal message seems to be paying off. The Conservative-friendly Telegraph has felt it necessary to editorialize to its readership that the...