Dear Dr. Gates, Your cautious appraisal of a proposed American military intervention in Libya is an important warning from a…
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Henry Kissinger’s Fakepolitik
Henry Kissinger should emulate Old Marley’s ghost, which “floated out upon the bleak, dark night” from the chambers of Mr.…
Continue reading →The Secular Fatwa on Julian Assange
In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa inciting the faithful to murder author Salman Rushdie for blasphemy. Within a…
Continue reading →The Spy Who Taxed Me
Everyone is a spy now. The state has always spied on its citizens, but the lens is turning the other…
Continue reading →U.S. Intelligence Falls for Make-Believe Mullah
Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of fake Mullah Akhtar Muhammad…
Continue reading →The Drifting Capital of Terror
The printer cartridge bombs which nearly blew up U.S.-bound commercial jets have turned Sana’a, Yemen, into the new world terror…
Continue reading →Let it Leak: Wikileaks and Patriotic Whistle-Blowing
Spare a kind thought for my old friend Michael Morrell’s oldest son, Geoff, the Pentagon’s Press Secretary. The Defense Department…
Continue reading →Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, and Privatized War
Sixty-six years ago this month, the American and Free French forces landed in southern France to liberate this half of…
Continue reading →Self-evident Truths
For Barack Obama on the Eve of His Inauguration as President of the United States.
Continue reading →Squaring the circle
“The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists,” says Gilles Kepel in his…
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