The Israelis just had to get in on the fun. But then the stories of torture – of hooded, humiliated inmates at Abu Ghraib and other facilities – did have a familiar air, as if the Israelis were tutoring their American sock-puppets in the finer points of...
It's summer vacation time! Yeah, one whole weekend of it. Oh well, it's better than nothing. I was going to write about how the Green Party's vice presidential candidate isn't even sure she's going to vote for herself, but, suddenly, a wave of ennui swept over me, and...
Michael Moore's new film embodies all the virtues, and vices, of the American left at the present moment: it is trenchant and wrongheaded, serious and superficial, startlingly original and horribly clichéd. There is humor, sophomoric as well as dark; emotion,...
Asked about the implications of the President's interview with Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald, the special counsel appointed to look into the "outing" of a CIA agent by hawkish government officials, White House spokesman Scott McClellan wasn't...
The victors in the Iraq war are now moving rapidly to consolidate their gains, and carry out the second phase of their operation. No, I don't mean the June 30 American handover of pseudo-"sovereignty" to a puppet regime, but the ongoing invasion of Kurdistan...
The headline of the UPI story detailing President Hamid Karzai's recent trip to Washington – "Afghanistan is Bush's good news" – was in stark contrast to content of the piece, which started out tellingly: "Standing beside President George W....
So it turns out that there weren't any links between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, after all, but, hey, guess what? The story has been revised and updated. Forget Iraq, we really meant to link Al Qaeda to – Iran! Yeah! That's it! And the beat goes on…....
It's pathetic, really, to have to hear our war birds squawk and complain about the consequences of the policy they wanted so passionately, the glorious crusade they argued for with such overriding certainty and sense of mission. Here's Andrew Sullivan on the Abu...
Are we now torturing children? A chill went down my spine as I read an account of a recent talk given by Seymour Hersh at the University of Chicago (via blogger Brad Delong): "He said that after he broke Abu Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him...
"It's not fun to be accused of war crimes," opines Gary Schmitt, executive director of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). It's even less fun to be victimized by war criminals, but, then again, why should the neocons at PNAC care about that? After all, as...
