This Saturday, Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton will be giving a talk at the King County, Washington Libertarian Party convention. Details can be found at their website here.
Review of Tim Weiner’s “One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon”
Years ago, after Richard Nixon had resigned and gone into temporary exile, my boss introduced me to Sam Dash, the former Senate Watergate Committee’s chief counsel. I remember asking Dash if he thought we had heard the last of Nixon. “Never!” he answered. “He’ll...
VERIFIED: Where Wars Do — and Don’t Come From
Where wars DO come from: "It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation." --Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The...
Cold War Americans Not as Fainthearted as You Might Think
At Reason, Greg Beato sketches the history of the fallout shelter in Cold War America. Apparently, most people didn't get too carried away with doomsday preparations: "Despite what a 1961 issue of Good Housekeeping derided as 'massive propaganda to induce Americans to...
Medvedev’s ‘Tough Guy Act’
According to CBS, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's first six months in office have contradicted the "liberal" reputation he (apparently) had when he was first elected. Maybe it's a shock to some that one can be "soft spoken" and never have been a KGB spook and yet...
