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The coming Pax Americana
An interesting piece in Haaretz by Efraim Halevy, former chief of the Mossad and National Security advisor to Ariel Sharon, about the wonderful potential of American Empire in the Middle East: "At present the United States is torn between the immediate need to ensure...
OKC ten years late(r)
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show (4-6pm eastern time): In the first hour, the interview will be about something that has nothing to do with foreign policy or terrorism cases, but in the second hour, I'll be interviewing survivor V.Z. Lawton about the real story...
Join Sibel Edmonds’ Protest Today
Sibel Edmonds to lead protest over government secrecy Thursday morning Today was to be the oral hearing on Sibel’s lawsuit fighting the State Secrets Privilege imposed over her case. The court has made the extraordinary decision to close the hearing to the public and...
The Hate-Athens Left
Don't tell Campus Watch, Victor Davis Hanson, or other self-proclaimed defenders of Western civilization, but the classical Athenian historian Thucydides obviously hated all that is right and good. On the consequences of the Peloponnesian Wars:Practically the whole of...
Horowitz Blog Expires — of its own silliness
This morning, as I sat down to the computer, I did what I do every morning: went straight to David Horowitz's Frontpage website. I need a good laugh first thing. This particular morning, however, I noticed something rather odd. Something seemed to be missing. At...
Is this treason, or what?
How often does a former foreign minister and current parliamentarian of a country join an international commission proposing to carve up its territory? Goran Svilanovic, formerly the Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegro) under the DOS regime and currently...
Pope Benedict XVI on the Iraq War
The position of the newly-elected Pope Benedict XVI on the Iraq war could not be clearer: "Is the war that has been announced against Iraq a just war? 'All I can do is invite you to read the Catechism,' Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger replied with a mischievous grin, 'and...
Benedict XVI: A Champion of Peace
The ascension of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI is good news for the peace camp: he will carry on the legacy of John Paul II, whose stance against the invasion of Iraq enraged the War Party -- and inspired millions with the hope that God had not...
Iraqi Parliament: Green Zone must be liberated
Give 'em a little sovereignty and they get all uppity:“I saw the whole thing and adding insult to injury was when Iraqi soldiers drew their rifles at brother Fatah as he was being mistreated by the Americans,” said Ali Yushaa an independent Shiite MP. Deputies took...