Bush gets one thing right

The general dishonesty of Bush's ridiculous press conference Monday has already been covered, but he did say two things that weren't outright lies. That U.S forces will never leave Iraq if he can help it is a given, but I want to point out the one other thing Bush said that was true

Be All That You Can Be

Aim High! Step right up! Bring your daughter on down! Sign her up for the Service. It's a great way for her to be able to afford to go to college and be a professional when she grows up! (If you don't mind her being raped, that is.) The Washington Times: "More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to...

What is Left? What is Right?

What do a bunch of interesting writers have to say about it? The American Conservative magazine for August 28th is devoted to this question (including Rockwell's article that I blogged last week). I've always thought, since about 11th grade, that libertarianism was the exact opposite of both left and right rather than any derivitive of or synthesis between the two. Left and Right are but two collectivist/socialist ideologies that put the 'greater good' (as determined by individuals, of course)...

My fellow Americans

We have got to make our government stop this madness. From the Washington Times: Children who have never been charged with a crime are being held in juvenile prisons in Iraq, a State Department official stated in a report he posted on the Internet this week. Some of the children are in the detention centers simply because there is no one to pick them up and take them home, said Marshall Adame, an official with the National Coordination Team based out of Camp Victory in Iraq. "These are not...

How to blow up a dozen planes over the ocean

Bwahahahaha! First, you've got to get adequately concentrated hydrogen peroxide. This is hard to come by, so a large quantity of the three per cent solution sold in pharmacies might have to be concentrated by boiling off the water. Only this is risky, and can lead to mission failure by means of burning down your makeshift lab before a single infidel has been harmed. But let's assume that you can obtain it in the required concentration, or cook it from a dilute solution without ruining your...

Alexandrovna: OSP Crew Briefing Cheney with Lies About Iran

Intelligence officials doubt Iran uranium claims, say Cheney receiving suspect briefings Larisa Alexandrovna The Bush administration continues to bypass standard intelligence channels and use what some believe to be propaganda tactics to create a compelling case for war with Iran, US foreign policy experts and former US intelligence officials tell RAW STORY. One former senior intelligence official is particularly concerned by private briefings that Vice President Dick Cheney is getting from...

The CIA-Contra-Crack Connection, 10 Years Later

From the LA Times: Reporter Gary Webb was the victim of his own hyperbole, but he never got credit for what he got right. By Nick Schou NICK SCHOU is an editor for OC Weekly. His book, Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb, will be published in October. August 18, 2006 TEN YEARS AGO today, one of the most controversial news articles of the 1990s quietly appeared on the front page of the San Jose Mercury News. Titled "Dark Alliance," the...

9/11 Press for Truth, coming to a theater near you!

http://www.911PressForTruth.com "They lied. They all lied." -Patty Casazza (one of the 'Jersey Girls') '9/11 PRESS FOR TRUTH' COMING TO SELECT THEATERS NATIONWIDE ON SEPTEMBER 8TH ========================================= *The movie that tells the inside story of the 9/11 families' fight for truth and accountability premieres in Manhattan on Thursday, September 7!* The invitation-only event at Two Boots Pioneer Theater will be attended by 9/11 families, the filmmakers, press, and a sprinkling...

Plagiarism

The following was ripped off in its entirety from Jim Bovard at AWC: Justice Department Appeals Ruling on

Will Grigg’s new blog

Well folks, I'm not sure what exactly is the deal, but the very best of the Birchers, my good friend, William Norman Grigg, has a new blog to replace the old BirchBlog that for some reason has ceased to exist. You may continue to read Will's great essays at Pro Libertate http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/ What a great name for a blog, huh? Here's a taste of what he's got in store: "The glad tidings have resounded from the talk radio minarets and Mega-Church madrassas of the Bushi'ite Right:...

Butler Shaffer rules.

Not over any unwilling subjects mind you, just at writing about how the state is no good. Well, probably other stuff too. Check this out though. He's figured out how to end war for ever: "We must learn to love our children and grandchildren more than we do the state." Imagine! It took all of history until 2006 to get a human to put those meanings together in one sentence. A little more: "By ending the separation between

Me on KABC in Los Angeles Tonight at 7pm Pacific time

Antiwar.com assistant editor, me, will be a guest on KABC radio on Sunday afternoon and again on Monday evening. KABC is the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles and is available for listening on the Web. It is on AM radio in Southern California at 790AM. I will debate a representative from StandWithUs.com, a Christian group supporting Israel