Palast Delivers "The (e)Mail"

Did ya’ hear the one about Tim Griffin, Rove’s errand boy that just happened to get one of the US Attorney slots in Arkansas from the firings, and him resigning thursday? Guess who…
Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating the firing of US Attorneys, met Thursday evening in New York with Palast. After reviewing [...]

Antiwar Radio: Robert A. Pape

Professor Robert A. Pape explains the research behind his book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, why Rep. Ron Paul is correct that groups who engage in suicide terrorism can only recruit in the name of fighting against foreign occupation – rather than devotion to any religion, promises of virgins in Heaven [...]

Antiwar Radio: Steve Clemons

Steve Clemons, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and keeper of the influential blog The Washington Note, explains Dick Cheney and his neocon cabal’s attempt to make an end run around President Bush and get us into a war with Iran whether he wants to or not, where the “realists” stand, the layers of [...]

Antiwar Radio: Jim Lobe

Jim Lobe, Washington correspondent for InterPress Service, discusses the situations in DC and in Iraq and how things seem to be playing out: The “surge,” Baker-Hamilton, al Qaeda, Sunni Arabs, Sadr, the Iran factions, the Kurds and the Turks, and the neocons big meeting in the Bahamas and their hopes for sabotaging Rice’s diplomatic efforts.

Happy Frickin Birthday, Star Wars

On HBO tonight, my Honey and I were watching Reventh of the Sith, Episode III. (They’re airing the whole 6-episodes back to back.)
Then it ended. And I’m thinking, whoa. Where Episode III ended is where we’re at now, in real life, on planet Earth.
It could take a whole generation or two before [...]

re: More Baghdad Embassy Photos Leaked

Thanks, Scott, for linking some of the details on the “world’s largest embassy” complex in Baghdad.A TheAscuttlebutt on thisAhas been around for quite some time but it has never been put in tangible form before.A Americans have a hard time focusing on things in the abstract and this will help.A Someone should also check and [...]

Keep Ron In

Conservative bigwig Richard A. Viguerie has set up a new website, KeepRonIn.com,AandAhasAwrittenAanAopenAletter:
Keep Ron Paul in the June 5 New Hampshire debate!Dear Fellow Conservative:
The next Republican presidential debate is just days away. It will be held at 7:00 pm Eastern Time on Tuesday, June 5 in New Hampshire. Its sponsors are CNN, the Manchester [...]

How much does the US really pay for its unconditional support of Israel?!

An increasing number of US public figures are breaking the old taboo and openly discussing the huge cost the US is paying for its unconditional support of Israel. From Michael Scheuer, to President Carter, from John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s to Scott Ritter, to the recent Republican Presidential debate in which Ron Paul dared to [...]

The Show

for today:
1st hour:A Steve Clemons, Jim Lobe
2nd hour: Robert A. Pape
Listen live here 11am-1pm Texas time.

Don’t We Have a Constitution, Not a King?

As the nation focused on whether Congress would exercise its constitutional duty to cut funding for the war, Bush quietly issued an unconstitutional bombshell that went virtually unnoticed by the corporate media.

The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, signed on May 9, 2007, would place all governmental power in the hands of [...]

Rumour of the century (wiping Israel off the map)

What was said?
Farsi: “Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad.”
Translation: “The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time”.
Word by word: Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish [...]

Henry Rollins - "This Is How I Protest The War"

In a discussion with young Israelis,
Rocker Henry Rollins describes his first visit to Walter Reed Hospital to visit wounded veterans on behalf of the USO.
He recalls his shock as he walks into the first veteran’s hospital room, and his feelings afterwards….