What an inspirational lecture by an American officer, apparently motivated by the need to discipline the occupied third-worlders he has the (white man's) burden of protecting. They should be thankful for his interventions, which have been in the interest of the Iraqi people. He should be listened to...

Hat tip: The Daily Dish I've been reading about the case of Chas Freeman, who has been nominated for National Intellgence Council Chief. Seems as if Mr. Freeman has been targeted by the Israeli Lobby for being, agasp, a person not falling in line with everything pro-Israel. Mr. Freeman from a speech...

The one right stance of the Bush administration was that it played tough with North Korea, one of the craziest and looniest countries in the world, behind Saudi of course. Like everything else the Bush administration did, they failed in that, too. North Korea easily played the six-party talks, givin...

Just as the pro-Israel lobby appeared to lose a fight over the appointment of Charles “Chas� Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, it is hailing a success: getting the United States to boycott Durban II, the international conference on racism. The last conference, held in 200...

Britain's role in the secret abduction of terror suspects came under intense new scrutiny with the return to the UK of Binyam Mohamed yesterday after more than four years in Guantánamo Bay. Senior MPs said they intended to pursue ministers and officials over what they knew of his ill-treatment and ...

So, Europe's warboiler is on again, and the liberals are eager to spill more blood in the hopes of transformative democracy or whatever...I hate liberals. I am one in a lot of respects, but I am not a Hobbit. Our first Bosnian adventure wasn't terrible, as in fact, our first Iraqi adventure ...

in other news... In Iraq: Abu Ghraib soon to open under a new name. Same shit, different name. In Afghanistan: Bagram is being expanded as Guantanamo 'closes'. Now this is change we can believe in......

Yousef Munayyer, a Policy Analyst for ADC and PhD Candidate does a local TV show and hands Mark Levin the host of Inside Scoop his own ass after serving him one humble pie after another. It's like: "Here have some more pie! Go on, have another piece." Throughout the interview you get the impression ...

Relaxing one evening last week at the Cuckoo's Cafe, a rooftop restaurant in the heart of the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, Barack Obama's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan seemed on the point of causing a major incident. As ever in the region, there had been no warning. The weather was ...

Iran gave a strong signal yesterday that it is prepared to start a mould-breaking dialogue with the United States in response to the dramatic call by Barack Obama for the Islamic Republic to "unclench its fist". President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hardline president, used the final rally of celebr...