Well, since America's interests and those of Israel cannot possibly be distinguished from each other, I suppose that's perfectly okay. Seriously though, read all about it in Time here.

The Post: Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. In a notice dated Wednesday, the Justice Department listed 196 pending habeas cases, some of which cover groups of detainees. The new Military Commissions...

Along the lines of Justin Raimondo's article about Jonah Goldberg and the Ledeen Doctrine, one of the most sickening yet, as far as I can tell, unremarked upon bits of hearsay in Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, is about the bloodlust of Henry Kissinger, apparently as relayed to Woodward by former Bush speechwriter Mike Gerson. From page 408: "Why did you support the Iraq war?" Gerson asked him. "Because Afghanistan wasn't enough," Kissinger answered. In the conflict with radical...

According to former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, writing in the October 9th edition of the American Conservative magazine, the Bush administration is withholding a new CIA National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. "The United States government

He doesn't seem to think their coverage of the 2006 Dictatorship Act [.pdf] quite does the matter... ahem, justice. "The Post mentions new

Philip Giraldi's Deep Background from the American Conservative for September 25th The Pentagon continues to develop a series of contingency plans that respond to the likely scenarios that the US will face in the event the President orders direct military action against Iran after the November elections. The following scenario, based on intelligence analysis, suggests a rapidly escalating conflict that might only be concluded through the use of nuclear weapons: If the US conducted an air...

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary October 17, 2006 President Bush Signs Military Commissions Act of 2006 The East Room http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061017-1.html Fact Sheet: The Military Commissions Act of 2006 In Focus: National Security

by Anthony Gregory LewRockwell.com Neglected in most discussions of patriotism is any stipulated or even clearly proposed definition of what it really means to love one's country. The Right is loath to admit it, but what it usually means when it speaks of loving one

The Stewart case, in which the Injustice Dept. brought charges against a civil rights lawyer for passing on press releases from her client to the media, was designed to have a chilling effect on efforts to defend those the US government deems to be its enemies. Stewart's client (Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman) is behind bars in Egypt. Stewart describes him as being so sensory-deprived (because of age) that he is, for all practical purposes, hallucinatory. She passed on a statement from him to his...

Tuesday on the KAOS Report, Shauna Kaye will be in town to co-host. Want to prove to your friends that you're not crazy, or at least not crazier than the guy screaming on the pirate radio station? Tell 'em to tune in 5-7 pm Texas time on 95.9 and 92.7 FM in Austin, Texas or stream it live at KAOS959.com. Archive here. Thanks Sol.

Will Grigg is right back up and swinging after his dismissal from the John Birch Society. In this new article for LewRockwell.com, he explains that the border fence and other measures designed to "protect" us from illegal immigration are simply excuses to violate our rights: "One need not be an advocate of open borders (I certainly am not) to experience a momentary twinge of misgiving over the idea of forcibly deputizing businessmen and landlords to inspect citizenship papers. The most...

Will Grigg is right back up and swinging after his dismissal from the John Birch Society. In this new article for LewRockwell.com, he explains that the border fence and other measures designed to "protect" us from illegal immigration are simply excuses to violate our rights: "One need not be an advocate of open borders (I certainly am not) to experience a momentary twinge of misgiving over the idea of forcibly deputizing businessmen and landlords to inspect citizenship papers. The most...

Those Bastards! "Had the meat been seized as well

Share burdens and responsibilities indeed.