PEN American Center, "the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world

Remember that goofball Anthony Gancarski who got fired from AWC because his articles were pointless and stupid when they weren't putting Michael "Machiavelli's Ghost" Ledeen on the side of truth, and who, upon his dismissal, immediately went and started writing for David Horowitz at the very pro-war FrontPageMag? Well, he apparently decided he could shine up that reputation a little by slamming my man Jim Bovard and his new book Attention Deficit Democracy in the Washington Times. The review...

when he says, "I wish Iraq well, but I as a foreign policy analyst from the United States am not willing to take responsibility for what takes place in Iraq." It is your responsibility, not simply for being an American, but because you pushed it.

when he says, "The only way to drive U.S. influence out of the Muslim world, bin Laden has long maintained, is to tie it down in a series of small wars that bleed it financially. The nearly $10-billion-a-month wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are doing just that. Iraq, as even Bush admits, has become an incubator, magnet, and call to arms for anti-American jihadists across the Muslim world." Of course, it would be easier (and cheaper) if we just learned from the mistakes of the past, or at least...

Via Scott Horton, the human rights attorney (no relation): Eric Haney, the former command sergeant major of Delta Force, and a key advisor to CBS

Larisa Alexandrovna is pissed at the AP. It seems they've never learned the most basic natural law: Don't steal.

Tune in 95.9 or 92.7 FM or listen live at KAOS959.com 6pm EST, we'll be discussing the civil war in Iraq, and the likelyhood of war with Iran. RobertDreyfuss.com Update: Here is the mp3.

"Build a wall!" "Jail their employers!" "Hire more cops" How many times have you heard the old refrain: "But they're illegal immigrants!" Well... So-Fucking-What? You might have noticed the "law" around here is just a bunch of bullshit thuggery cloaked in the PR of Madison's old coup. People are people. They all have rights, such as to travel, contract for work, a place to live etc. "Live and let live. Anyone who doesn't accept that, I say take 'em out back and shoot the motherfucker!" -...

That's what Larisa Alexandrovna says.

Here. Also, she is in the running for a book prize.

Right now. Goddamn liars. What a terrible piece of shit. Really.

Betray them when it's over. Veterans told: there is no Gulf War Syndrome

My 12 Days in Detention by Jasim Mohammed Khalaf

The US Supreme Court says so - at least as it applies, as it was never meant to, to the local police - by a vote of 5-3.