See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil. Evil.

Over at The Guardian, Sidney Blumenthal considers the president's second inaugural address, recalling a line from the first:As Bush draws the sword of righteousness against the forces of darkness, the enemy being evil itself ("evildoers ... axis of evil"),...

Daniel Pipes is quietly dropped from the U.S. Institute for Peace. I wonder if this had something to do with it.

Michael Scheuer, lately of the CIA, now a bestselling author, on the tail wagging the dog: "Pro-Israel lobbyists have run an enviable 'covert action' in the United States, a former top CIA analyst said. Michael Scheuer, who wrote a best-selling book criticizing the...

Via Yoshie at Critical Montages, a quote from Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil:The US military destroyed Falluja, but simply spread the fighters out around the country. They also increased the chance of civil war in Iraq by using their new national guard of Shias to suppress...

What are they putting in the water cooler over at the Cato Institute, once a bastion of reliably anti-interventionist scholarship and an invaluable resource for antiwar activists? I was reading Christopher Preble's op ed on "How to Exit Iraq," and everything was going...

The perfect retort to yet another 25,000-word tirade from Norman Podhoretz.

At a time when Iraqi expats all over the world are registering to vote in the forthcoming election, here's a related situation, explored by James Bowen in the Irish Times, to ponder:The elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about is the disenfranchisement of...

Glasnost, Iranian-style.

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