FAKE ‘GOOD NEWS’ FROM IRAQ

The lying cretins who gave us the Iraq war aren't content that our soldiers are sitting ducks for terrorists throughout the Middle East – now they're using them as props in a propaganda campaign designed to convince the American people that "progress" is being...

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US WAR PROPAGANDA IS PATHETIC

The U.S. government is launching a public relations blitz designed to show the American people that they shouldn't believe the evidence right in front of their eyes, because our success (or lack of it) in Iraq is all in how you look at it. The President has complained...

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HANDS OFF BOB NOVAK!

The idea that, because of the Plame Affair, conservative columnist Bob Novak may be called on to reveal his sources – perhaps even be subpoenaed – leads to an interesting question: Did the leaker (or leakers) hope to ensnare Novak in a legal and ethical web...

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ISRAEL IS THE PROBLEM

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, and it looks like we may be in for a possible replay of that horrific disaster in which tens of thousands lost their lives. Yesterday, Israel bombed alleged "terrorist camps" in Syria. The excuse: yet another...

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L’AFFAIRE PLAME

L 'affaire Plame is about breaking the law, about arrogance, about the ordinary viciousness that suffuses the corridors of power – but its real significance is overlooked in the frenzy to find the perpetrator and tie him or her to the White House. The problem...

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THE NEO-JACOBINS

Surely it isn't modesty that makes the neocons shy away from the spotlight. Yet how else can we explain Joshua Muravchik's shock at the sudden discovery that entering the term "neoconservative" into Lexis-Nexis will cause an aborted search because "the number of...

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THE COSTS OF WAR

I review most of the major opinion pieces that appear on this website, and, as you might imagine, I read a lot of news stories every day of the week. The process can become somewhat tedious, and it takes a lot to get my attention. But my blood ran cold as I read this...

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WAR PARTY WHINES OVER IRAQ COVERAGE

That high-pitched whine you're hearing is the sound of politicians and their media amen corner complaining about the "negative" coverage coming out of Iraq. To hear them tell it, everything is just hunky-dory over there – it's the "biased" reporters, and not the...

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INSTEAD OF A COLUMN

I wrote this review of Jim Bovard's important new book, Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil, for The American Conservative, and they have (quite unexpectedly!) put it online – and thus given me a day off. Actually,...

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ANOTHER 9/11?

A desperate Saddam-on-the-run is reportedly in secret negotiations with the Americans – he's having second thoughts about his formerly expressed belief that "that no honorable hand has stretched out to greet" the "miscreant, murderous and cowardly occupier," as...

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