I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. - J. D. Salinger | Chapter 25 | Catcher in the Rye

Lukery | Sibel Edmonds Case: FBI files "formal complaint" with Sunday Times

Last week, Scott Horton interviewed (audio) investigative journalist Joe Lauria. Lauria was one of the co-authors of the three-part (1, 2, 3) series on the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds for the UK's Sunday Times.

Glenn Greenwald | Doubts over the anthrax case intensify -- except among much of the media

But almost immediately after the FBI leaked this theory as to when and how Ivins traveled to New Jersey undetected, it was pointed out in several online venues, including here, that this timeline made no sense whatsoever -- that, indeed, the FBI's own theories were self-contradic …

Tom Engelhardt | Double Standards in the Global War on Terror

[A TomDispatch recommendation: Bill Moyers had Andrew Bacevich on his "Journal" for an hour Friday night, discussing his new book, The Limits of Power (which is now the number one bestseller at Amazon).

Tom Chartier | PNAC Goes AWOL

The Project For The New American Century, PNAC, has gone Absent Without Leave. They have seemingly vanished with the sands of time. It sounds too good to be true which means, it probably is not true.

William Engdahl | Missile Defense: Washington and Poland just moved the World closer to War

The signing on August 14 of an agreement between the governments of the United States and Poland to deploy on Polish soil US 'interceptor missiles' is the most dangerous move towards nuclear war the world has seen since the 1962 Cuba Missile crisis.

Russ Kick | Classified Letters Regarding FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds

The following three letters were recently declared classified, even though they had been considered unclassified since their creation in summer and fall 2002.

William Engdahl | The Pentagon's alarming project: Avian Flu Biowar Vaccine

There is reason to believe that sections of the international pharmaceutical industry cartel are acting in concert with the US Government to develop a genetically modified H5N1 virus substance that could unleash a man-made pandemic, perhaps more deadly than the 1918 'Spanish In …

Juan Cole | McCain: Nations don't invade other Nations

McCain says, "In the twenty-first century, nations don't invade other nations:" And imagine him all sweetness and light now about wanting good relations with Moscow after his rants all the past week.

Tom Burghardt | Operation Sentinel: The High-Tech Police State Takes Shape

Information captured by this intrusive project would be stored in a huge database for an undisclosed period of time.

Mogambo Guru | Gold and the Out of Whack Economy

Mark O'Byrne, Executive Director of Gold and Silver Investments and writing at Money Week prefers his statistics on the fundamental side, and even so, agrees with this analysis and says so in an essay titled "Why Gold and Silver are Table-Thumping Buys."

Karen Kwiatkowski | Is the American Enterprise Really War in the Caucasus?

Years ago, I optimistically read AEI fellow Jeane Kirkpatrick's defense of our foreign policy hypocrisy, entitled Dictatorships and Double Standards. Even as a Cold War conservative at the time, I recall feeling that she protested too much.

Ellen Brown | Wag the Dog: How to Conceal Massive Economic Collapse

"I'm in show business, why come to me?" "War is show business, that's why we're here." – "Wag the Dog" (1997 film)

Brad Friedman | Exclusive: Death Threats Against Obama and 'Traitorous Liberals' Posted On Rightwing O'Reilly Contributor's Website

On Wednesday night, Føx "News'" Bill O'Reilly continued his dishonest and deceptive attacks on websites, such as Huffington Post and Daily Kos, which he misleadingly describes as "h*te sites" which feature "vicious far-left attacks" as based on selective comments he's discov …

Juan Cole | Cole in Salon: The Bush/Cheney Kettle Call the Putin Pot Black

My column, "Putin's War Enablers: Bush and Cheney" (Russia's escalating war on Georgia reveals the consequences of the Bush administration's long assault on the international rule of law.) is now out in Salon. Excerpt:

Andrew Bacevich | The Lessons of Endless War | 2

Andrew Bacevich | The American Military Crisis | 1 To the problem of an overstretched, over-toured military, there is but one answer in Washington.

Mogambo Guru | The Great Variety of Poor Rich People

And if that was not enough, these university egghead guys actually go on to say that the poor are actually thriving, as "the range of goods consumed by poor households increased by far more than for rich households.

Thomas Woods | The Great Gold Robbery of 1933

It's been 75 years since the federal government, on the spurious grounds of fighting the Great Depression, ordered the confiscation of all monetary gold from Americans, permitting trivial amounts for ornamental or industrial use.

Michel Chossudovsky | U.S. Armada En Route to the Persian Gulf: "Naval Blockade" or All Out War Against Iran?

The World it at a very dangerous crossroads. America in alliance with NATO and Israel has embarked upon a military adventure.

Juan Cole | McCain Strategist Lobbyist for Georgia; Scheer: Did He Stage Provocation?

McCain's campaign strategist Randy Scheunemann was a lobbyist for Georgia until recently, and remained part of Orion Strategies until May 15. OS had signed a $2 mn. deal to provide "strategic advice" to the Georgian government.

Stephen Lendman | Using Georgia to Target Russia

After the Soviet Union's 1991 dissolution, Georgia's South Ossetia province broke away and declared its independence. So far it remains undiplomatically recognized by UN member states.

Mogambo Guru | The U.S. Dollar on Roman Steroids

Inflation seems to be raging, to one degree or another, all over the world now, and in Europe as a whole it rose to 4.1%, which is (as I hear) the most inflation in 16 years.

John Laughland | Solzhenitsyn and the Russian Question

The death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn produced predictable reactions from Western commentators.

Dmitry Orlov | The Trouble with Georgia

Ryan suggested that I weigh in on the current conflict in South Ossetia and in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, which I mention in passing in my book, "Reinventing Collapse", as one of the bigger post-Soviet political fiascos. - Dmitry Orlov

Juan Cole | Russia & Georgia, US & Hamas, Cheney & Musharraf

Bush's demand that Russia "reverse course" on Georgia and not try to overthrow an elected government is full of special pleading. Bush has no standing to ask anyone not to go around invading countries, of course.

Brad Friedman | The 'Stalinist' Democrats of the DCCC

Apropos our article on Friday describing the "Rovian dirty tricks" that FL-24 Congressional candidate, Clint Curtis, alleges his primary opponent, former State Rep.

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