From the Free Liberal via Norman Singleton at LRC: "On September 20, 2006, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations, calling U.S. president George Bush a "devil." Crossing himself, his face revealing a hint of smile, Chavez said, "This table from where I speak still smells like sulfur." On Trinidad television, a news reporter sought reactions from the people of Venezuela. An elderly woman in Caracas said to the reporter, "Chavez is correct to call...

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Hey everyone, check out this great article by Vedran Vuk from Mises.org, via LRC, about the disasterous effects of government "welfare" in post-hurricane New Orleans.

Laura Rozen has the the story.

Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate .Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States. dated April 2006[.pdf] Key Judgments United States-led counterterrorism efforts have seriously damaged the leadership of al-Qa

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You can only make matters worse. Article by Brendan O'Neill.

In today's addition of his bi-weekly column, "The Wartime Economist," Antiwar.com's David R. Henderson takes on George Shultz of the Committee on the Present Danger and the best case the War Party can make for continuing the failed "war on terror." Tough luck there George. David's article reminds me of retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski's story about Shultz's fax to Secretary of Wars Rumsfeld in the summer of 2002. As she recounted to C-SPAN's Brian Lamb, "I

So does Jacob Hornberger. The United States of Barbarism by James Bovard, September 25, 2006 The U.S. Senate is cutting a deal with President Bush to make America a banana republic. Last week, three senators reached an agreement with the White House that will de facto permit the CIA to continue torturing people around the world. And the deal will prevent anyone

Some details the macroeconomic statistics on immigration can miss Brian Doherty Reason The federal government, in this election year when immigration reform has been (inexplicably) one of the hottest issues, is out to prove it can protect our nation's borders

From the AP: CAIRO, Egypt - An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Saturday purporting to show the bodies of two American soldiers being dragged behind a truck, then set on fire in apparent retaliation for the alleged rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by U.S. troops from the same unit. The Mujahedeen Shura Council

Remember that story? You didn't really believe that the Iranians were just afraid of big tough guy Ronald Reagan... did you? Gary Sick wrote October Surprise all about it back in the day. Robert Parry reminds us that this was the beginning of the Reagan administration's cooperation with Israel in arming Iran for war against Iraq and the funneling of the profits to the "contra" murderers of Nicauragua. He also points out that "The false history surrounding the Iranian hostage crisis also has...

Uh, really? The Times: A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks. The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by...

Okay, so I admit to a grudging respect for Hugo Chavez. 1 He hates Bush and American Imperialism - I can only imagine how much. 2 At least at the time of the embarrassingly failed coup in April 2002, he had a supermajority mandate (not that I believe in foolish notions of "popular" sovereignty). 3 Bush's wars have made oil so expensive that he has plenty of cash to blow, and I'd be amazed if he hasn't been able to continue to buy much of that support. I know he's survived at least one recall...