This is too funny. Followers of this blog will be aware that we recently had to call out “World’s Greatest Intellectual” Noam Chomsky for loaning legitimacy to vile historical revisionism on the Bosnia war. The problem with having to diss… Read moreNimmo disses Chomsky —for wrong reason
David Irving, the self-trained British “historian” currently cooling his heels in an Austrian jail cell, appears to have recanted his denial of the Nazi Judeocide. The Nov.5 UK Guardian reports that a “repented” Irving plans to plead guilty to charges… Read moreIs David Irving recanting his Holocaust denial?
The Bush administration decided to charge designated “enemy combatant” Jose Padilla, a US citizen who was initially said to have been preparing a radioactive “dirty bomb” attack on US soil, with less serious crimes because it was unwilling to allow… Read morePadilla case raises torture concerns
Well, after three years in Pentagon custody, José Padilla has finally been indicted. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, announcing the indictment, tried to be as lurid as possible, charging that Padilla was part of a “North American support cell” to send… Read morePadilla indicted: was “dirty bomb” a dirty lie?
Spain has joined Italy in launching an investigation of claims the CIA is operating a “rendition fleet” to transfer detainees to facilities in a secret gulag maintained in various host countries. From the AP, Nov. 15: MADRID, Spain — The… Read moreSpain probes CIA “rendition” claims
The pending indictments in the Plame affair are providing interesting fodder for those intent on analyzing internal splits within the ruling elites. OK, all you domestic Kremlinologists out there—who is really runnning the show at the White House? Has Dubya… Read moreWho’s in charge?
On Oct. 26, John D. Negroponte, the first director of national intelligence, released a detailed National Intelligence Strategy for coordinating the nation’s 15 spy agencies. It calls for building up the ranks of intelligence operatives and analysts and delineates new… Read moreNegroponte gives CIA new powers; Jew-haters make hay
U.S. District Court Judge John Koeltl in New York Oct. 25 upheld activist attorney Lynne Stewart’s conviction on terrorist conspiracy charges, finding that allegations by her lawyers were unfounded that a juror on the case feared for her life and… Read moreNo retrial for Lynne Stewart
The persistently irritating John Tierney has done it again. In a typically smarmy column in the Oct. 25 New York Times, “And Your Point Is?”, he dismisses the Plame affair as a bunch of empty hot air, asserting that “no… Read moreThe Plame affair: denial in the New York Times
Condoleeza Rice spilled the beans in Congressional testimony: there really is (as we always suspected) a White House plan to redesign the Middle East! Capitol Hill liberals like Barbara Boxer squawk about the administration’s “unbelievable rewriting of history” in changing… Read moreRepublican reps: It’s “another world war”
Well, Judith Miller is out of jail, has testified before the grand jury, and wrote up a story on her own testimony for the New York Times. She even expresses some contrition, admitting to error, if not wilful collaboration with… Read moreJudith Miller: “I got it totally wrong”
In what has become a yearly ritual, activists from the American Indian Movement (AIM) staged angry protests at the Columbus Day march in Denver, while the city’s Italian-Americans intransigently refused to “get it.” This from an AP account online at… Read moreColumbus Day culture wars …and the fascist connection
