Justin Raimondo vs. Christopher Hitchens on al-Jazeera

Justin Raimondo was on al Jazeera yesterday, with Christopher Hitchens and Nazar Janabi from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Riz Khan was the host. The show was about al-Qaeda: after 20 years of existence, what is it’s future? Is it recruiting? Those...

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An Apology to Cynthia McKinney and Chuck Baldwin

On Friday August 15, Antiwar.com featured a front page template with the images of John McCain, Barack Obama, Bob Barr and Ralph Nader below the caption, We are holding their feet to the fire: Without fear or favor. Some of our readers expressed a concern that by not...

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In Depth Coverage of the “South Ossetia War”

Loose Wire blog writes: Wikipedia is doing a good job of chronicling the war in South Ossetia; its mention of several apparent cyberattacks on both sides makes me wonder whether this is the first instance of a physical war being accompanied by a cyberwar?...

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Ellsberg: Remembering Anthony Russo

Anthony Russo, my partner in the March 1971 leak of secret government archives (The Pentagon Papers) exposed how successive U.S. administrations manipulated America into the Vietnam War, died August 5, 2008 at his home in Suffolk, Virginia. Tony Russo came to be my...

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‘Left Behind’ and that McCain Ad

Having read and even reviewed (rather unfavorably) the first book in the thoroughly anti-semitic “Left Behind” series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, I found this analysis of the recent McCain ad on Obama as “The One” pretty persuasive. It doesn’t follow...

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The Icing on the Yellowcake

It was brought to my attention this morning that some people have recently been using last month's Iraqi government sale of Yellowcake uranium to a Canadian company as vindication for starting everyone's favorite Middle East quagmire that's totally going less awful...

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