Kill the Messenger

There’s a new documentary coming out about Sibel Edmonds, the famously gagged FBI whistle-blower who found out too much about the criminals who occupy the highest levels of power in this country and others. It’s called Kill the Messenger. Watch the trailer here....

And the Nominees Are…

Mickey Kaus: Andrew Sullivan has decided to give out a Nancy Grace Award. Criteria (suggested by Sullivan's readers) include "a nauseating level of absolutist self-righteousness," an "unflappable self-assurance that [the nominee's] outrage represents the true moral...

It’s Getting Closer ….

Retired Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner, interviewed on Monday by CNN's Wolf Blitzer, had this to say about the possibility of U.S. military operations against Iran: BLITZER: How close in your opinion is the Bush Administration to giving that go ahead. GARDINER: It’s...

Bush’s Useful Idiots

A new piece by Tony Judt in the London Review of Books contains more than its fair share of memorable phrases -- "America’s liberal armchair warriors are the ‘useful idiots’ of the War on Terror" -- and one is tempted to simply copy and paste the whole thing,...

AWC Columnist in DC Friday

Chuck Peña will be discussing his latest book, Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism, Friday afternoon in Washington, D.C. The Independent Institute-sponsored event will also feature Roger W. Cressey and Joseph Cirincione. Details here.

“Be ready to move by Oct. 1 …”

From Time magazine [Sept. 25] via Joshua Micah Marshall: "The first message was routine enough: A 'Prepare to Deploy' order sent through naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters. The orders didn't...

It Can Happen Here

Check out this WWII-era Office of War information propaganda film on the "relocation" of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast to concentration camps in the interior. Concentration camps, to be sure, well-stocked with plenty of "nourishing food" and pregnant with...

Celebrate Constitution Day Bush-Style

This is Constitution Day.  The National Archives is holding a celebration in which children can stop by and sign a “faux Constitution.”  George Bush issuing a statement earlier this week proclaiming: America is grateful to those who have worked to defend the...

Spreading Freedom

As we say here at Antiwar.com, the best way to spread the best parts of the American way - the rights of the individual, free markets, self-government and so forth - is by example. That when we export our way with force, we lose our own liberty and, by killing people...

Bush Unscripted

And I thought his speeches were pathetic... Here are a couple of parts of Bush's Friday press conference that warrant some review (There are more, but I no longer have the patience.): "QUESTION: Mr. President, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the world is...