Fun link: A Short Play Starring Christopher Hitchens, by Jonathan Schwarz. Speaking of troublemakers... It all began with a recommendation to celebrate Veteran's Day with a donation to AntiWar.com. Well, at least that was the proximate cause of this round. Be sure and...
Shoe(t)ing at Allawi
An astute AntiWar.com reader explains why Allawi would rather claim to have been the victim of gun-wielding assassins than an angry mob throwing tomatoes and shoes:In Arab culture its more acceptable to a man to be hit by a bullet rather than a shoe -or even worse!-by...
The colour of honour
Why do Bush-boosting, pro-war Americans especially seem to find it impossible to imagine walking in another's shoes? Via Jim Henley and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, you'll recognize the typically American Bushie right-winger attitude in the following Al Jazeera post:...
Najaf mob tries to assassinate Allawi with shoes?
Who to believe? Here's Allawi's account: Iraq's former prime minister Iyad Allawi said gunmen tried to assassinate him in Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrine on Sunday, forcing him to cut short an election campaign visit pursued by an angry mob. "It appeared to be an...
A Pathetic Anniversary: Ukraine’s Shriveled ‘Orange Revolution’
The first anniversary of Ukraine's U.S. government-backed -and-subsidized "Orange Revolution" provoked this bitter comment from Yevgen Zakharov, co-chair of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group, who last year was manning the barricades in Kiev against the supposedly evil...
Propagandists in Pajamas?
Hey, I'm not saying Tony's necessarily completely right about this - now im not saying that Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon are in bed with the Bush Administration, or the Instapundit. those guys are fair and balanced. any time the Republicans make horrible...
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Via the HuffPuff: "The United States Agency for International Development is seeking applications for an Assistance Agreement from qualified sources to design and implement a social and economic stabilization program impacting ten Strategic Cities, identified by the...
Russia and the Boomerang Effect
Nikolas Gvosdev, editor of The National Interest, takes down Reason magazine's Cathy ""there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks" Young: "How easily Americans play hard and fast with the truth. History is now being rewritten so that all...
An Urgent Appeal
Jeremy Scahill sends along the following:Four members of Christian Peacemaker Teams were taken this past Saturday, November 26, in Baghdad, Iraq. They are not spies, nor do they work in the service of any government. They are people who have dedicated their lives to...
Hersh and Bamford Interviews
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Sy Hersh about his new article "Up in the Air, and a few other things, and then in the second hour, James Bamford will return to discuss his article "The Man Who Sold the War" My previous interview of Mr....
