The more commercial television news you watch, the more wrong you are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq War and its aftermath, according to a major new study released in Washington on Thursday. And the more you watch the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News...
Visiting the Vassals
Following in the footsteps of Bill Clinton, two more former Imperial dignitaries have toured the occupied Balkans this past weekend. Onetime stepfather of Bosnia Richard Holbrooke and former Kosovo viceroy Bernard Kouchner visited Sarajevo and Pristina, reminiscing...
Bush Stance on Syria Hit Shows Neocons Still Hold Sway
The neo-conservatives in and around the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush may be on the defensive, but Washington's reaction to the Israeli attack on Syria Sunday shows that they remain in the driver's seat at the White House. The fact that Bush has...
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...
A Bureaucratic Fix for Iraq?
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Meeting Al Jazeera, Hearing Hamid Karzai
The war on the war, so to speak, is going rather well these days, with numerous standard journalistic organizations fascinated with the CIA-White House leak and showing signs of eventually getting it right. In addition, the interim report from former UN weapons...
Washington APlame, or The Lady’s Not for Burning
One has to feel sorry for Republicans. Although they control both houses of the U.S. Congress and the White House, they must think they're living through a bad dream. Consider Republicans on Capitol Hill in particular: After campaigning for a constitutional amendment...
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...
Dude, You Got, Like, Totally Plamed
anti-Americanism n: a neurosis associated with the followers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams anti-Semite n: 1 : a person who concedes that Arabs might be human 2 : whomever David Frum happens to be arguing with at any given time Ba'athist...
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...


