U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote : Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967: p. 2) WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South...

Noam Chomsky gave a talk (broadband Real Video link) at Columbia University's Earth Institute, on November 16, 2004, and during the question period, this exchange took place; Q. "Could you think of or imagine any form or shape in which you might support American...

What happened yesterday? That's the topic tonight on PBS' News Hour, with Jim Lehrer, and one of the guests is, to my delight, Juan Cole, whose rational, clear-eyed analysis has provided a welcome alternative to the party-lining neocons, shouters, and dithering...

Keith Olbermann is burning up the airwaves with his scorching "Countdown" news program tonight. First, a little vignette about a "rumor" spread in Tikrit that food rations would be cut off to non-voters in Iraq's election. Then a bit about of the "missing" nine...

Campaign workers pasting up posters in Saigon for the September 1967 election, four months before the Tet Offensive. SUCCESS! United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong...

I see Glenn "I'm a tax-supported professor with time on my hands" Reynolds -- does that guy ever teach any classes? -- is sliming Tom Woods' best-selling book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, without -- of course -- having actually read it. Now, I...

Good grief! When I read the following blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, I practically fell off my chair: "THE NYT'S SILENCE: In the blogosphere, we are often called to account for previous statements; or asked to concede that we were wrong about something or other. It...

The official results aren't in yet, nor are any preliminary returns, but that isn't stopping the United Iraqi Alliance backed by fundamentalist Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Sistani from claiming victory -- and an overwhelming one at that: "Officials in the United Iraqi...

As usual, the drugs-sex-&-rock&roll brigade over at Reason is head-over-heels in love with the latest deformed offspring of American "democracy"-promotion, in this case the Iraqi election, with editor Nick Gillespie fawning -- "some came on crutches" -- over the fake...

Stephen Schwartz, self-described "Trotsky-con," frenzed defender of Uzbekistan's brutal dictatorship, and always a barrel of laughs, must be off his medication again, 'cause here he is taking credit for the Iraqi election: "The group of non-Iraqis in America entitled...