That is the false choice presented by that creator of the Arab-Afghan Mujahideen, Zbigniew Brezinski, in his new piece for The American Interest "The Dilemma of the Last Sovereign." It is mostly a bunch of nothing about what you already know is the Bush administrations' overdoing the battle against the enemy that Zbig and the boys had created for him, mixed with his wish that "we" could get back to that good old time collective security which he pretends isn't what got us into this mess in the...

Jim Bovard reviews James Risen Audio of Risen on Russert's CNBC show February 26th.

I've been tagged by Anthony Gregory. Here ya'll are: Four jobs I've had: Cab Driver Radio Host Foreign Policy Advisor to Badnarik Campaign 2004 Assistant Editor for Antiwar.com Four movies I can watch over and over: The Empire Strikes Back I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Waco: The Rules of Engagement Sane Man Four places I've lived: North Austin South Austin Central Austin Denver Four TV shows I love: Simpsons Futurama Daily Show Uh,... Frontline? Four highly regarded and recommended TV shows I...

Antiwar.com editor Matt Barganier destroys him here.

The Niger forgeries Part one of her interview here. RS: What about Panorama, the publication to which the Niger documents now known to be forgeries were delivered? You wrote for Panorama as we had previously discussed. Ledeen: As I've told you before, these claims are nonsensical. I have no point of contact with the Niger documents, I haven't even seen them or read them. I've never met Rocco Martino, and the sum total of my "work with SISMI" consists of one half day in Rome. RS: No point of...

Well, Murray Waas at the National Journal has another scoop, and this ought to be a big one. It seems Waas has confirmed that Bush was told about the State Department's INR, the DOE and the IAEA's insistance that those infamous aluminum tubes were for rockets back in October of 2002. Rice has lied repeatedly, claiming that Bush never heard of such a thing until after the war started. The only reason they were getting away with it was because the administration had only released portions of the...

Harry Browne has died. Liberty has lost one of its greatest champions. As I wrote before, it was Harry Browne who first introduced me to libertarianism during his run for president in 1996. When I saw him in the third party debate on C-SPAN (really the third, fourth, fifth and sixth party debate), I realised there was a name for the way I thought. His opposition to the government's involvement in any aspect of the lives of the people never wavered. When I first interviewed him, I was shocked...

When I interviewed [.mp3] former US Marine and lie-debunking UN weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, last year, he got all bent out of shape when I brought up Iraqi General Hussein Kamal [at about 38:00]. Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, defected to Jordan in 1995, after which he was debriefed by the CIA, MI-6, IAEA, UNSCOM etc., and told them - with the paperwork to prove it - that Iraq had initially attempted to deceive the UN weapons inspectors after Operation Desert Storm

"I describe myself as a democratic revolutionary, I don't think of myself as "conservative" at all. Indeed it seems to me that most self-described leftists today are reactionaries, and have lost the right to describe themselves as people of the left."

More than 1,300 people have been killed since the bombing of the shrine last week.

This Frontline Special about the insurgency in Iraq will help explain why.

The sick bastard.

"Guantanamo was a lightning rod," said a former senior administration official who like many of those interviewed would discuss the matter in detail only on the condition of anonymity. "For some reason, people did not have a problem with Bagram. It was in Afghanistan."

Larisa Alexandranova say to watch Tim Russert on CNBC tonight Saturday at 10:00pm Eastern. All about the NSA watching your ass. Update: I hope you're watching this. Update II: Audio here. It's bad news. Very little really new though.

Well, since it isn't true these days unless the National Review thinks so, here you go, you bitches: "I can tell you the main reason behind all our woes -- it is America." The New York Times reporter is quoting the complaint of a clothing merchant in a Sunni stronghold in Iraq. "Everything that is going on between Sunnis and Shiites, the troublemaker in the middle is America." One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. The same edition of the paper quotes a fellow of the...