Author: Zandar1

Well, the other shoe has dropped on the NIE/Tapegate and we see the neocons play their hand…the CIA dared to embarass Dear Leader and they must burn for it.  Calling the CIA’s actions “mutiny” and...

As I see that UBS is writing off $10 billion (with a b) in subprime losses and almost certainly will write off more bad losses in the months to come, something caught my eye that doesn’t add up. Swiss banking giant UBS AG...

There’s still the major issue of why the Iran NIE was allowed to see the light of day, and while I believe it was deliberate, WHY it was deliberate is a separate issue. Josh Marshall has a theory… There are,...

Many folks have wondered why the Iran NIE saw the light of day in the first place if it so obviously contradicts the neocon “all war, all the time” position.  Several theories are out there, ranging from it...

A couple days ago I remarked that the Iran NIE was nothing more than a base to be spun into a pretense for war.  Subsequent reactions from the Bush administration, the neocons, and Israel have all but confirmed this: if...