The great, forgotten book Advance to Barbarism: The Development of Total Warfare from Sarajevo to Hiroshima by the British jurist FJP Veale is more than just a critique of the Nuremberg war crimes trials (In which the Allies tried the Germans for crimes that they were not willing to apply to themselves). It's also an analysis of war tactics, particularly as it pertains to the British decision on May 11, 1940 to begin bombing German civilian targets, a decision which broke 250 years of...

Reason magazine Senior Editor Brian Doherty discusses his incredible achievement: Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement with Antiwar.com's Doug Bandow on C-SPAN. A great interview to watch and perhaps even pass around. Doherty's eloquence in describing libertarian principles as he retells the history of the movement allows for deep explanation in a very accessible way. Note: The book is not Conservatives Against the Drug War. It is Radicals...

I first debunked this pathetic lie 11 months ago (a few days after Bush unveiled it): While President Bush was threatening Iran on Monday, he blamed the Iraqi Shiites and Iran for the insurgency. According to the AFP, Bush said that: ‘Tehran has been responsible for at least some of the increasing lethality of anti-coalition attacks by providing Shia militia with the capability to build improvised explosive devices in Iraq.’ I know what you’re thinking: President Bush is so stupid that giant...

By Eric Fair the Washington Post A man with no face stares at me from the corner of a room. He pleads for help, but I'm afraid to move. He begins to cry. It is a pitiful sound, and it sickens me. He screams, but as I awaken, I realize the screams are mine. That dream, along with a host of other nightmares, has plagued me since my return from Iraq in the summer of 2004. Though the man in this particular nightmare has no face, I know who he is. I assisted in his interrogation at a detention...

Too bad you have to go to the Arab press to even read about it. Ron Paul, a Republican congressman, said: "Unproven charges against Iran's nuclear intentions are eerily reminiscent of the false charges made against Iraq." Paul said "unproven accusations of Iranian support for the Iraqi insurgency" were also serving as a pretext for "escalating our sharp rhetoric towards Iran." "Pressed for proof of dramatic claims of Iranian involvement in Iraq, the administration keeps promising that they are...

Wow. So does that mean I have to be for staying now? Check out this great quote explaining why we're beaten: "there is no indigenous government to support on the battlefield and the rigors of combat must be borne by the outsider alone is too steep for democracies, especially in a world of globalized media. The United States does not have the same room to maneuver that Britain enjoyed in its counterinsurgency operations in Kenya or Malaya. The American public will eventually fault battlefield...

It's about how the Democrats and Republicans are both worse than each other, with special attention to the Democrats and their corrupt, socialist ideology. Read here please.

That's right you little shits! Iran is arming the Sunni insurgency against their new government in Iraq! 2+2=5 If I say it does! You ready for war? Cockburn on the Times Liars.

BATF entraps Americans Rice Allure Fades Rice had allure?

Before, when Karen Kwiatkowski, Jim Lobe, Bob Dreyfuss/Jason Vest and Sy Hersh reported on the activities of the Office of Special Plans it was just rumor and innuendo. Now the Inpector General concludes the very same thing. Since the State itself now says so, it has become fact. Sort of like when the Columbia had "apparently" blown up over Palestine, Texas until it was officially announced by the sub-retard-in-chief 3 hours later back in 2003. Update: Doug Feith on NPR this morning. Hahahaha!...

Craig Unger has another great one in Vanity Fair: The neoconservatives have had Iran in their sights for more than a decade. On July 8, 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's newly elected prime minister and the leader of its right-wing Likud Party, paid a visit to the neoconservative luminary Richard Perle in Washington, D.C. The subject of their meeting was a policy paper that Perle and other analysts had written for an Israeli-American think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic Political...