It is quite remarkable that a coterie of neocon intellectuals and influence peddlers can exhibit bizarre personal behavior, prove utterly incompetent in high appointive office, manufacture entirely false evidence to propel us into a disastrous war, and yet still have...
When the Tonkin Gulf incident took place in early August 1964, I was a journeyman CIA analyst in what Condoleezza Rice refers to as "the bowels of the agency." As a current intelligence analyst responsible for Russian policy toward Southeast Asia and China, I worked...
Both the book and movie Charlie Wilson's War glorify the "colorful" liberal Democratic congressman's successful crusade to bludgeon the reluctant, neoconservative Reagan administration into dramatically escalating funding, arming, and training of radical...
If John McCain wins the Republican presidential nomination, it seems to me that the Democrats have only to show the American people this clip: That alone would be enough to blow the USS McCain out of the water. What with polls showing [.pdf] that most voters want us...
Updated at 5:25 p.m EST, Jan. 13, 2008At least 13 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 26 were injured in various incidents. In Diyala, deliberately contaminated water sickened over a dozen people. In Baghdad, security forces will impose a motorcycle ban to...
Human rights activists will lead rallies across the United States today to build pressure on the Bush administration and Congress to end the detention of foreign prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay military camp. From Washington, DC to Boise, Idaho, civil libertarians...
Updated at 5:10 p.m. EST, Jan. 12, 2008U.S. forces announced the removal of troops in Anbar province with the hope that the province will be completely in Iraqi hands by March. The news coincided with a light day of violence in which at least 30 Iraqis were killed and...
FALLUJAH - US and Iraqi officials claim that security is improving across al-Anbar province and much of Iraq. Security during the last half of 2007 was indeed better than in the period between February 2006 and mid-2007. But this has brought little solace to many...
How many Iraqi civilians have lost their lives as a result of gunshots and bombings since the US military invaded that oil-rich Arab nation nearly five years ago? Credible estimates for the period March 2003 until June 2006 have ranged from a high of 600,000 to about...
I started this from an airport, on my way to New Hampshire to join the horde of media covering the primaries there. Having spent almost a week of being unremittingly busy as an anonymous (except perhaps to Register readers and others who checked out my blogging)...
