Antiwar Veteran Starts New Blog

Charlie Ehlen, a Vietnam War veteran and sometimes pen-pal of mine, has started up a new blog called Charlie's Corner. This 10th tier blogger is happy to have him around. Check out his article for CounterPunch from last Christmas and the email he sent me today: Re: Karen Kwiatkowski on C-SPAN Mr. Horton, Mrs. Kwiatkowski deserves our highest respect. OK, she didn't "do an Ellsberg", but she has consistently told the TRUTH about this bullshit war. She ranks at the top of my heroes list. This...

Karen Kwiatkowski on C-SPAN with Brian Lamb

Check it out: Her story, Why We Fight, neoconservatism, OSP, Luti calling Zinni a traitor, Franklin, Ledeen, David Shenker, WINEP, PNAC, Shultz's memo to Rumsfeld in Summer 2002, how she regrets that it never occured to her to do a Dan Ellsberg and steal documents, Soldier for the Truth David Hackworth (RIP) and his publishing of her anonymous essays from the Pentagon, Ahmad Chalabi and his handler Col. Bruner, Curveball, Michael Mackovsky, permanent bases in Iraq and America's military...

Bush’s Civil War

World Peace Herald: The rate of killings in Iraq is already as bad as during the horrendous 1975-1991 Lebanese Civil War, in which 150,000 to 200,000 people were killed over 16 years -- an average of between 9,375 and 12,500 people were killed there per year. These comparisons, of course, can be misleading because in those conflicts, as in almost all civil wars, the rate of killing is not uniform but explodes in peaks and then settles down at lower levels for long periods of time. But the...

Angela Keaton for LNC!

I read over on Steve Gordon's blog that Angela Keaton is planning to seek an at-large seat on the Libertarian National Committee. Now, mostly I'm the kinda guy who figures that if I just write and rant the right things, the rest of the world will just work itself out. I guess it counted as taking part in electoral politics when I was Michael Badnarik's foreign policy advisor in 2004, but not really. It was education, with a specifically targeted audience. Now, I think it is time to finally...

You’re hired, or we’ll send you off to the torture camp.

What happens if agents of the US national government want you to become a snitch and you refuse? Off to Guantanamo with you!! The Washington Post tells the story of two men who were kidnapped on suggestion from the British MI-5 in the African state of Gambia simply for refusing to be their tools: When they arrived on Nov. 8, they were detained by Gambian and U.S. intelligence operatives, who interrogated them again, this time for a month, British and U.S. documents show. Then two of the men,...