Serbian envoy delivers Post smackdown

Serbia-Montenegro’s ambassador in Washington finally managed to deliver a proper smackdown to the Washington Post, castigating the publication for its vulgar misrepresentation of the situation in Kosovo. The Post’s editorial of March 24 was basically a rehash of ICG...

Recent Letters

In Backtalk: Pete Komen's Law of Politics: Never believe anything until it is officially denied. Marcia Schneider: Ralph Nader should talk about us. Peter Yff: We don't know what really happened in Halabja. Greg Cunneen asks: If the purpose of "rendition" is not...

Shameless/Speechless

Israel's the former, I'm the latter. From Ha'aretz:After half a century of reticence and recrimination, Israel on Wednesday honored nine Egyptian Jews recruited as agents-provocateur in what became one of the worst intelligence bungles in the country's history. Israel...

All-New Fallujah Brigades?

64 Sunni clerics of the Association of Muslim Scholars and the Iraqi Islamic Party gave a fatwa calling for Iraqi Sunnis to join the military and police. Juan Cole comments that , "Unlike Sistani's this ruling does potentially change things," which is rather an...

Neoconned

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I'll be talking with J. Forrest Sharpe of IHS Press about the soon to be released two book set, Neoconned, which includes essays by Justin Raimondo, Pat Buchanan, Samuel Francis, Joe Sobran, Charley Reese, Thomas Fleming, Eric S....

‘Homophobia’ and Gannon-gate

Gee, I feel kind of bad about how mean I was to good ol' Billmon: his gracious, funny, and thoughtful response is here. I have to say that it was the timing as much as the tone of Billmon's original post that put me off. After having to read the ceaseless barrage of...

Lies of David Horowitz (Part XXVI)

Does David Horowitz, the ex-Black Panther supporter turned neocon, get up in the morning and immediately start making a list of the lies he's going to tell that day? Sure seems like it. Just this week, his website published a piece by Steven Plaut that falsely...