Antiwar.com "If the king attacks Persia, he will destroy a great empire."

He used to be the "best." Now he's fighting on the side of liberty. Here's his Website.

At least that's what claims the TV over and over again today. How do they know? Well because SecDef Gates met with 15 of them in Iraq Thursday for breakfast. "'Sir I think we need to just keep doing what we're doing,' Spc. Jason T. Green, with the 101st Military Intelligence Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Infantry Division, told Gates. ... "'I really think we need more troops here. With more presence on the ground, more troops might hold them off long enough to where we can get the Iraqi Army...

What a Great Leader. And this latest from Sidney Blumenthal. Hersh and Ritter too.

It's Christmas at ground zero There's music in the air The sleigh bells are ringing and the carolers are singing While the air raid sirens blare It's Christmas at ground zero The button has been pressed The radio just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping It's the end of all humanity No more time for last-minute shopping It's time to face your final destiny It's Christmas at ground zero There's panic in the crowd We can dodge debris while we trim the tree...

Merry freaking Christmas. 5-7 PM Central Stream it live here. 92.7 and 95.9 FM in Austin, TX. MP3 here. The petition I mentioned.

Was the Chicago School responsible for the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet? Brian Doherty clears up some misunderstandings on the part of the left and right. Also in Reason, David Weigal interviews the newest member of the LNC, Bob Barr. Hmmmm.

Now you know.

*Note: Actually her husband, David Wurmser, Dick Cheney's Middle East Advisor, was the principle author. I had once misread this old Jim Lobe article. Neocons: We expected Israel to attack Syria They are a unified group of American intellectuals, who held key positions in Bush administration and were blamed for getting US into Iraq. Most of them are Jews, so they are obviously accused of risking America in favor of Israel. Israeli Meyrav Wurmser claims that if situation is bad, Israelis are...

It is one very good way of understanding the former Iraq today. A small bit illustrating the futility of the current policy: "Another possibility is that Bush could give permission for the long-rumored coup d

By Randall Everson (Via Kiddo) Also: US prepares to further invade Africa, EU helps aid and abet the MEK, Too little too late, bitch, Saudis are going to stop that scary al Qaeda Caliphate that rules Iraq, Doug Bandow on "libertarian" warmongers, Matt on neocon dumbasses Bush, Prager and Frum, London Stock Trader Urges Move to

On Angela Keaton's show, guest hosted by SMiles Lewis. 6:30 Central. Go here, and see if you can figure out how to listen. Archive here.

Otherwise the al Qaeda will take over the whole world with their massive Caliphate International!

Don't think so? If we were created in God's image, how come people are such tools?

I have a new piece over at LRC about the trouble with the centrists. An excerpt: Both parties advance legislation to win over the middle and most politicians govern from the center. The actual difference in policy between a Bill Clinton and a George W. Bush is smaller than many might assume, and, in any event, not the ideological chasm between left and right that some suspect it is. Both parties support foreign intervention, war, public education, forced retirement programs, government funding...