Gray Falcon
Thursday, November 10, 2005

Extortion's New Name

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According to Financial Times , it's "incentive." Reporting on the Congressional hearing in which the State Department's ...

A Birthday Gift

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A month from now, Antiwar.com will be 10 years old. It was set up as a protest against Bill Clinton's interventionism in the Balkans, a...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Recycled Lies

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Here is the current mandatory propaganda meme in stories by Reuters , tracked across several articles: "Kosovo has been run by the U...

Why Governments Torture

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Charles Featherstone is fast becoming one of my favorite LRC writers. Here's an excerpt from his piece on government and torture, publis...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Returning the "favor"

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A friend directed to my attention this afternoon to a new blog, Balkans Without Borders , billed as "Helping to make the world into wha...
Monday, November 07, 2005

Tragedies in the Lives of Nations

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Fans of Hoppean history should rejoice, says Jørn K. Baltzersen today on LRC , over the new book by Dr. Matthew Raphael Johns...
Sunday, October 30, 2005

As Worthless as Dollars

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Here is what James Grant wrote in the New York Times on October 26 this year, commenting on the choice of Ben Bernanke as the new Fed Chairm...
Thursday, October 27, 2005

The Heart of the Matter

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Today on LRC, Anthony Gregory admonishes those who avoid seeing the forest from the trees: The state is not about laws on pieces of paper...
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Tom Friedman and Imperial Hypocrisy

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I've considered Thomas Friedman scum since way back in the spring of 1999, when he was baying for Serbian blood as NATO bombers pounded ...
Thursday, October 20, 2005

Loving the Emperor

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Gene Healy wrote an interesting piece in Reason online, concerning Americans' love affair with the Imperial Presidency, as manifested ...
Monday, October 10, 2005

Onward and Upward

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After almost five years of Thursdays, Balkan Express (est. October 19, 2000 ) is moving - by a day. From this week onward, it will appear o...
Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Birds of a Feather

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Natasa Kandic, the foremost peddler of atrocity porn in Serbia, is to become a honorary citizen of Sarajevo. So says her "Humanitarian ...
Thursday, September 29, 2005

Finding Serenity

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"Once you've been to Serenity, you never leave." Television is often seen as mind-numbing poison - and in most cases, that...
Monday, September 12, 2005

This is why...

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Since the news, rumors and images started coming in from the lost city of New Orleans, I've seen many interesting opinions about the man...
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Imaginary Outlets

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It isn't often that I can laugh uproariously upon reading what is supposed to be a serious quote from the legacy media. Usually, their s...
Thursday, September 01, 2005

Empire vs. America

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My criticism of the Empire has frequently been mistaken as criticism of America, as if they are somehow one and the same. In the eyes of the...
Friday, August 26, 2005

Against the "Strategic Class"

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In the run-up to the 2004 U.S. elections, I pointed out the lack of difference between a Democratic and a Republican empire, drawing a paral...
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Antiwar Verse

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Rudyard Kipling's poetry, though good, was in the service of promoting the Empire of the day - in his case, the British. Richard Cumming...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Missing the Plot

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I was reading today's LRC , and I caught this fantastic quip by the always wise Bill Bonner: "Watching the news is a bit like wat...
Thursday, August 11, 2005

"Shoot the first Serb..."

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According to the Belgrade daily " Srpski Nacional ," the commander of Zagreb riot police, one Zvonimir Vitjak, threatened the Serb...
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