Charles Krauthammer is Right

For perhaps the first time ever, the sick, evil, warmongering liar Charles Kruthammer has got his facts straight, though, of course, he remains on the wrong side of every issue. In his new piece for the Post, "In praise of the rotation of power," Kruthammer writes: As the Afghanistan war intensifies -- Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops -- it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so. It's become America's war. When the former opposition party --...

Sibel Edmonds Interview.

From electricpolitics.com via Luke Rylands blog. Connect the dots. According to the UN's latest report, under U.S. occupation 92% of the world's opium production comes from Afghan poppies. Most of the heroin going to Europe is manufactured in or transits Turkey. The exact value to Turkey of its heroin exports is unknown but experts estimate a range in the tens of billions of dollars per year. The neocons helped establish and remain closely associated with Turkish lobbying efforts in the U.S....

Kagan and O’Hanlon: Time to Get Ready for War in Pakistan

Now we all expect this kind of craziness from the Kagan klan - cowering behind desks while lusting for blood is apparently in their DNA - but let's get it straight about Michael O'Hanlon, who only a few months back was hailed as some great critic of the Iraq war saying that wow, the surge really is working. Well, you probably remember that Glenn Greenwald thrashed that lie from here to there, back then. Now, he's here with a Kagan to recommend spreading the war in Afghanistan next door....

My biggest fear about Ron Paul

(Cross-posted from my blog. I know that most of you will not agree with what I write here, but I offer my opinion candidely and I apologize in advance if that offends anybody) ------- I have to admit that I like Ron Paul. A lot. While Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinch are also speaking up against the transformation of the USA into a Neocon empire, the former, while certainly sincere and well-meaning, is too prone to antics and the latter showed an unforgivable lack of courage when he abstained...