That's right, INTERPOL has put out a "Red Notice" for Wikileaks mastermind Julian Assange. Well, we knew there was some hair on fire about the recent diplomatic cables dump, so this sort of intergalactic law enforcement intimidation was to be expected. But wait, he's...
Krauthammer: WikiLeaks show the U.S Military’s “Restraint”
This has got to be the quote of the day -- maybe the week, maybe the month. After agreeing all around on FOX News' Special Report tonight that there was "nothing there, there" in the 400k documents dumped by WikiLeaks on Friday (a massive release of classified reports...
Where will your 8-year-old be 9 years from now?
Nine years ago the U.S invasion of Afghanistan began. Unbeknownst to most Americans, the U.S would still be in Afghanistan nine years later -- struggling politically and operationally, to "win." Unbeknownst to most Americans at the time, we would fight a parallel war...
A mother’s horror: Iran to release only 1 of 3 hikers
As the mothers of Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, have spent the last year pacing up and down in the private hell of not knowing whether they will ever see their children again, the Iranians who are detaining the ostensibly luckless hikers have...
Fallows, others, taking another look at Assange’s ‘demise’
Julian Assange, embattled director of WikiLeaks and now the focus of confusing and nebulous rape and molestation charges, lashed out over what he called a "smear campaign" by the Pentagon, which is still smarting from the release of 75,000 classified war documents,...
Daniel Assange is NOT Scott Evil
Looks like producers for Dr. Phil and Montel might be waiting awhile if they think they have a celebrity dad-hating story in the making. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post seemed to have obtained a scoop yesterday rising to the level of Dr. Evil/Scott Evil proportions,...
Breaking! Gasbag commenters mull murder, fatwas against leakers
There's nothing that gets the American can-do spirit going in the morning than a rightwing scribe urging the U.S military to 'have a fire sale' (read: destroy) Wikileaks, while invoking Bruce 'Die Harder' Willis and CIA 'friends' who openly advocate 'getting' (read:...
Nixon’s Vietnam Scapegoat Finally Gets Justice
One wonders how long it will really take to get to the truth about Abu Ghraib. If a story in today's Washington Post offers any indication, it will be about 40 years before we find out who authorized the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the early days of the...
Coulter unsheathes her blades on neocons. we yawn.
Ann Coulter went Jungle Red* on neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney this week over their demands that GOP Chair Michael Steele resign. The fun stuff comes at the back end of her WorldNetDaily column on Wednesday. First she seems shocked that her fellow...
Stan the Man and the people who own the war
UPDATE: So President Obama has decided the only way to resolve the Rolling Stone fiasco — which is really a COIN fiasco – is to put Big Daddy COIN in command. Anyone else feel like we’re on Ozzy’s Crazy Train? There were two major themes that I took away from...


