Even though it's really all the State's fault that they did not go to the FISA court and get permission to search Zacharias Moussaoui's computer until after the 9/11 attacks, it is true that he was in custody, had knowlege of at least some of the hijackers, and failed...
America Switches Sides in Iraq War
While President Bush was threatening Iran on Monday, he blamed the Iraqi Shiites and Iran for the insurgency. According to the AFP, Bush said that:"Tehran has been responsible for at least some of the increasing lethality of anti-coalition attacks by providing Shia...
Moon-Age Nightmare
More visionary brilliance from the neolibertarians at TechCentralStation:For the 2006 midterm elections, Republicans should propose an idea so big that it stretches to the stars. Republicans should commit the government to building a space elevator by 2020. … Space...
Lame Duck, or Duck & Cover?
Niall Ferguson reminds us that when a president's got nothin', he's got nothin' to lose.
Americans to Fight Under British Command – Declaration of Independence Burns
That's it folks. It's time to stop pretending that this is America anymore. It's not. After 60 years of the postwar Anglo-American empire, the Declaration of Independence has finally been formally annulled by the crime ring currently cloaking itself in the forms of a...
Sullivan Delenda Est
Andrew Sullivan: I'm aware of one person who clearly stated before the war that he believed that Saddam had no WMDs. That was Scott Ritter. This is not the same as saying that we didn't know for sure, or should have waited some more; or that containment could have...
Afghan Parliamentarian Malalai Joya touring US
The real heroes of Afghanistan are its women, who over decades of oppression and brutality continue to struggle for peace and freedom. Their goals are the simple human ones of obtaining medical help, education, and freedom from religious fundamentalism. Their enemies...
Milosevic dead, Tribunal relieved
However embarrassing a second death in six days might be, the Hague Inquisition probably breathed a sigh of relief when Slobodan Milosevic was found dead today. From the very first day, their effort to stage a show trial providing quasi-legal cover for Empire's...
Why are Marines Training in US Neighborhoods?
The Toledo Blade is reporting that the US Marine Corps is again conducting urban warfare training exersizes in the streets of the USA, this time attacking downtown office buildings in Toledo, Ohio. Are we to believe that this is to help them in their imperial mission...
Andrew Sullivan’s Song of Himself
Andrew Sullivan – for whom every topic is ultimately just another opportunity for navel-gazing – offers his mea sorta culpa. Let's have a mercifully abridged look: In retrospect, neoconservatives (and I fully include myself [We know, Andrew, we know - Ed.]) made...
