"The message is that there are no 'knowns'. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. So when we...
Resisting Intervention
Election years are typically full of the kind of vulgar sound and fury calculated to make sensible people despair of the possibility of civilized life. In his remarkable autobiography, "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" (an underappreciated masterpiece that deserves a...
Corporate Warriors Thank you for maintaining this site. Do you have a statistic about how many "contractors" have been killed /injured in Iraq? ~ PR Ford Sam Koritz replies: David Lazarus wrote about this subject in the January 21 San Francisco Chronicle ("Taking the...
The Madness of Carla Del Ponte
Louise Arbour had it easy. She followed NATO's instructions, made only as much fuss as she was told, and retired to the Canadian Supreme Court. It fell on Carla Del Ponte, her successor as the Head Inquisitor of the Hague kangaroo court, to actually put together and...
Afghan Elections Could Deepen Ethnic Divide
With only four months to go before scheduled elections in Afghanistan, a growing number of observers are concerned that balloting might aggravate rising ethnic tensions between the northern and southern parts of the country. Some experts are calling for the elections...
The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front
A ½-hour interview conducted by "Philip Dru." Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. Recorded January 4, 2004 WMV format (requires Windows Media Player)MP3 format (download requires any MP3 player)Gene Healy is Senior...
US Ally Uzbekistan Sends Elderly Mother to Prison, Hard Labor
After torturing her son to death, allegedly by boiling him in water, the government of Washington's closest Central Asian ally, Uzbekistan, has sentenced his 62-year-old mother to six years of hard labor in prison, according to human rights groups, who are calling on...
Is the Tide Turning?
You know something is up when even Bill O'Reilly, the Fox network's champion bloviator, is admitting that he was wrong about the "weapons of mass destruction" he and the rest of the War Party insisted were in Iraq. Of course, it was still a good idea to go to war, in...
Dear Mr. Prosecutor
Editor's Note: Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, is heading a Justice Department probe into the administration leak exposing the identity of Valerie Plame as a CIA undercover operative. The information, which was revealed to syndicated columnist Robert...
Body Count Redux
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