Author: mike

Fintan emailed me a nice parallel concerning the display of the Enola Gay in a US national museum. Apparently this airplane has no distinguishing features aside from the fact that it conveyed the first...

We rely on Europe?Old and New?to finance our private companies and … our government … the United States’ biggest exports today aren’t movies or software programs. They’re paper products?stocks, bonds, and other securities. The...

I’ve read several reports that the Undoubtedly Most Wicked Tyrant Of Our Age Hussein was caught due to a tip off by an underpaid flunky, but I’ve also seen this unusual angle – Hussein...

Private corporations have penetrated western warfare so deeply that they are now the second biggest contributor to coalition forces in Iraq after the Pentagon … While the official coalition figures list the British as...

In Hollywood, “celebrities” get to charge charities to make appearances at fund raisers. And there I was thinking they were doing it out of generosity… Many celebrities appear at these events not solely out...

So I keep seeing, over and over, tv clips of the captured Saddam Hussein (who in his bedraggled condition bears an uncanny resemblence to the Unabomber). They keep showing him opening his mouth wide...

I have to face facts, after several days of hoping I just had a common cold, the symptoms have not gone away and I now realise I am infected with the damn influenza virus....

[Iran] will, come hell or high water, build an atomic bomb. I doubt the US can do much to stop it … Iranians have some 15,000, perhaps, 20,000 so-called Badr troops and entrenched intelligence-apparatus...

serving her country. She is the daughter of Michael Ledeen, the Iran-Contra luminary, AEI scholar, and all-around capo in the neocon mafia. She’s 29, a freshly-minted M.B.A., with little to no experience in war-torn...

Cluster Fucked The use of cluster bombs in populated areas caused more civilian casualties than any other factor, said [Human Rights Watch] In addition, 50 “decapitation strikes” by warplanes targeting Iraqi leaders after intercepts...