Relax! It didn’t really happen. At least not here…
This is just the kind of policy that the US (and other hypocritical Western powers) are pushing on experimental countries like Macedonia – where the logical conclusion of minority “human rights” appeasement has now been reached, in the form of impending legislation that would allow [...]
Operation “Lightning” has supposedly been launched and the first casualties have been a 3 Iraqi guards killed by an insurgent car bomb at the Iraqi Ministry of Oil on Palestine Street in Baghdad and a British soldier killed by a roadside bomb in the Sadrist stronghold of Amara.
Oil Wars makes an interesting point about the [...]
John Cole is going on my blogroll for this series of posts.
John Cole
Rick Moran
John Cole
It’s a treat to read such a well argued conservative criticism of the idiotic arguments by Malkin, Hewitt and Barber. I can’t remember how I came across this, so if it was your blog, sorry for the lack [...]
Today’s New York Times (print edition) has a full-page advertisement on page 5 from the Council for the National Interest Foundation headlined:
AIPAC’s Agenda is Not America’s
The ad is well-done and makes excellent points, including: ISRAEL, STOP SPYING ON AMERICA! I cannot remember an explicit anti-AIPAC ad ever running in a mainstream paper.
The ad is [...]
Forced shaving of prisoners and tattooing. Where have we seen this before?
Only follow this link if you’re one of the reality-based community. Otherwise, you’d best keep your illusions intact by sticking to the pure, unfiltered Chrenkoff version:
Good electricity news from Iraq
Via Jim Henley
Under the absurdly self-evident headline, “Many Iraqis See Sectarian Roots in New Killings” (duh) the NY Times, after relating how Hassan al-Nuaimi, an Iraqi Sunni cleric, was found dumped in an empty lot with a hole drilled in his head and both eyes gouged out, quotes Ghassan al-Atiyya, a secular Shiite and the director of [...]
Drudge is running a report about an exchange between the only White House correspondent who matters – Helen Thomas – and White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. It goes like this;
Q The other day — in fact, this week, you said that we, the United States, is in Afghanistan and Iraq by invitation. Would you [...]
Due to some personal obligations, there won’t be a Balkan Express this week. Look for a new article next Thursday.
Justin Raimondo appeared again on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Wednesday morning. He discussed the Larry Franklin/AIPAC affair.
The show segment is now available archived on the Democracy Now! Website.
The show will also be on today:
Direct-TV, channel 375, from 11am-12noon and 6-7pm (Eastern time) and
Dish Network, channel 9415, 8-9AM, 12-1PM, 7-8PM and 12-1AM (Eastern time)
“What no one seemed to notice. . . was the ever widening gap. . .between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to [...]
Ah, Afghanistan. The good war. The poster child for regime change.
Well, looks like the poster child is a bad seed. From the NYT:
Since beginning work last month, the country’s Central Poppy Eradication Force, an American-trained group, has destroyed less than 250 acres, according to the two American officials. Its original goal was to [...]
