In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa inciting the faithful to murder author Salman Rushdie for blasphemy. Within a…
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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 →Why Libertarians Should Support the Palestinians
Israel is at it again, caught by its own free press with its hand in the till-not so much the…
Continue reading →Police Provoke Violence in France
Congress shall make no law…abridging…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress…
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 →Israel’s Great Loyalty Oath Crusade
Captain Black from Catch-22 is back, but this time he’s Israel’s Foreign Affairs Minister. Although Avigdor Lieberman only rose to…
Continue reading →How To Save Venice
An international shouting match is underway over the fate of the city everyone loves but no one wants to live…
Continue reading →Bring Out Your Dead (to Vote)
An Irishman’s home is his coffin. – James Joyce, Ulysses The dead use a graveyard forever. – Nathan Englander, The…
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