On Monday evening, as the returns from the Iowa Presidential Caucuses flooded in via CNN, C-SPAN, and other like outlets, it became all too clear to the casual viewer what the ramifications were. That Howard Dean, so-called "antiwar" candidate, had played himself....

Dave Lindorff, writing in CounterPunch, accuses the Republican National Committee of "play[ing] the Hitler card" with its recent denunciation of two amateur commercials, posted briefly on the MoveOn.Org website, that compared the sitting President to Adolf Hitler....

It's been years, it seems, since I've had anything positive to say about US foreign policy. Whether it's the jackass mathematicians and careful parsers of phrase in the Pentagon, or the mannequin posing as Secretary of State, the whole operation has proven to be...

On the cold, blustery weekend after Thanksgiving 2003, north Florida AM radio firebrand and political activist Andy "Down to Business" Johnson made a rare appearance on the cable news circuit. The venue was Fox News' "From the Heartland", hosted by former Congressman...

The advocates of war in the Middle East, now in panic mode, have resorted to concocting third-rate fiction to support the occupation of Iraq. Consider this email that National Review stalwart Cliff May claimed to have gotten from a real live Iraqi [who presumably...

Bush Versus Bush in 2004? A fraternal fracas brewing in Florida as proxies of the Governor and the President vie to succeed retiring Senator Bob Graham. Jeb backs Katherine Harris, but the White House [allegedly] demurs: "There's no way the White House will let her...

Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media's coverage of upwards of 30,000 people marching in Miami in protest against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) decontextualizes the act of protest itself. To the average person watching Wolf Blitzer hem and haw over the...

So this is what happens when we send women to war. Larry Flynt, also-ran candidate for California's Governorship and publisher of artsy photos, isn't going to run nude photos of Private Lynch after all. Flynt claimed to have bought the photos last month from the men...

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean is a master of timing. His appearance in Jacksonville, Florida on election day 2003 served several purposes. It signaled very clearly to the incumbent president that Dean, the putative frontrunner for next year's Democratic...

Happy Halloween. I type this knowing that I don't have a costume for tonight. But that doesn't matter so much. After all, in the United States every day is an occasion for costuming and obscuring the truth behind the public fictions. Costuming of a sort allowed...