Afghan frontman Hamid Karzai announced this past weekend that foreigners are to blame for the rampant corruption his country. It is true that foreign aid has helped bring out the worst in many Afghan wheeler-dealers. But Karzai and his cronies would likely be looting regardless of whether Uncle Sam air-dropped billions onto his land. New […]
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70 Years After Pearl Harbor: New Book On FDR’s Lying Path to War
Wednesday is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Americans have still not learned all the details of what the U.S. government knew prior to the attack. The Japanese attack was inexucsable, but Franklin Roosevelt’s actions played a far greater role in that debacle than most Americans realize. Thomas Fleming’s FDR and […]
MP3 – Hammering Foreign Aid Corruption and Afghan Lies on Antiwar.com Radio
Antiwar.com radio host Scott Horton and I had a jolly time exposing the frauds behind Afghan aid and other foreign policy charades. It is amazing how Afghan aid would retain any credibility in the American media. Why the ignorance and the kowtowing to the Official Line from the White House, Pentagon, and Karzai? Scott made […]
Dilbert Blights 500,000 Lives
I don’t know how many project managers follow Dilbert, but the ones that do (and understand the humor) might be ready for Suicide Watch. Scott Adams has a perfect ear for the absurdities of contemporary American bloviating.
Nature of the State Revealed in One Minute 39 Seconds
The police response to the nonviolent protests at the University of California Davis is a stark lesson of how much abuse some government officials feel entitled to inflict on anyone who does not kowtow. Watching this video, I wonder how much more violence the police would have inflicted if they had been confident that they […]
Zdenka Bartz, R.I.P.
I got a phone call from my old friend John Bartz a few days ago informing me of the sad news that his wife Zdenka had passed away. Zdenka was visiting western Europe at the time the Soviet military crushed the “Prague Spring” in 1968. Rather than return behind the Iron Curtain, she came to […]
TSA: Tenth Anniversary of a National Nuisance
The Transportation Security Administration is celebrating its tenth anniversary this week. Perhaps they can uncork an extra bottle of champagne to toast the hundreds of thousands of jobs they destroyed by making travel far more onerous for Americans. I have been flogging this agency since 2003. Here is a link to my blog entries on […]
