Another one bites the dust, and so fast, too! Progressives bitter about Obama have already lost their latest celebrity, Elizabeth Warren, to the fever swamp of war hysteria, and she ain't even elected yet. The Boston Herald reports the US Senate candidate, running...
Confusing All Around: The Air and Space Museum Bumrush
Yesterday I read with excitement that otherwise docile protests in Washington, DC -- the merging of the pre-planned October2011 rally with the spontaneous "Occupy" movement -- rushed the Air and Space Museum and got it shut down. Guards shot pepper spray at the crowd,...
Peres Sabotages Abbas with Praise
Israel has always undercut any possible peace process, but its tactics are big and small. Officials don't have to start a war in Gaza to break a truce with Hamas, they can also just say things like "Abbas is the best Palestinian leader for Israel." Thus spake...
What Changed? Nothing.
Justin Elliott had a good piece in Salon yesterday, which we featured here. But when I went to read it, the subtitle made me laugh out loud. "The president promised early on to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. What changed?" What changed? LOL....
Sorry. Iraq Was Still Better Under Saddam.
Studies show that it really is impossible to be totally objective. A recent one asks a set of people that if they lose a trial they brought, if they should still have to pay the defendant's legal fees. 80% said no. But if the question was flipped -- should you have to...
Everything is Terror Now. Didn’t You Know?
Apparently even the Dutch, those most contemplative guardians of high civilization, have begun using Washington's crude definition of "terrorism" -- that is, Anything We Don't Like. Sunny Ofehe, a Netherlands resident and activist from Nigeria's Niger Delta region,...
Petraeus’ Lies and Failure Mount — Toward Ever-Greater Career Success
Where Gen. David Petraeus goes, lies follow. Or maybe he's the liar. We probably can't expect the truth from a man in the military for as long as he's been. The 37-year veteran, retiring this week, is credited by the stenographic media with cutting violence in Iraq --...
Netanyahu Uses ‘J14’ Protests to Steal More of Palestine — and Israelis Let Him
This was written two weeks ago and sent to hundreds of American newspapers -- only one of which said they'd run it. We never herd back from them after embargoing this piece for days. It's not quite timely anymore, but these were my views on the "J14" protest movement...
Jeremy Scahill Trashes Juvenile Howard Dean on Obama ‘Successes’
Jeremy Scahill, despite lacking "mainstream" media credentials, continues to show the best chops of any military reporter out there. This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, he thrashed the moron Howard Dean on the issue of, well, everything, really -- from oh no the...
Juan Cole’s Conveniently Partisan Intervention Issues
"The Libyan Revolution has largely succeeded," Middle East scholar Prof. Juan Cole says in his recent article about Libya, rapturously recommended by "progressive" anti-revolutionary MSNBC Obama shill Rachel Maddow, who had him on her show last night. This was before...
