Rudy’s Radicals

If ever there was an archetypal anti-libertarian, a politician whose views exemplify all the very worst aspects of the authoritarian personality, then that man is Rudy Giuliani, who infamously intoned: "We look upon authority too often and focus over and over...

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Neocons Acquire Another
Front Group

As the neoconservatives have been wrong about almost everything in the past six years, it would seem logical to assume that their political demise is imminent. But nothing could be further from the truth: the neocons in government, though admittedly declining in...

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Where Did AIPAC Come From?

The following is an excerpt from Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal. AIPAC was founded by Isaiah L. "Si" Kenen, springing from the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs....

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Unable to Defeat Mahdi Army, US Hopes to Divide It

Despite the U.S. military command's frequent assertions that the primary threat to U.S. forces in Iraq comes from Iranian meddling, its real problem is that Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army is determined to end the occupation and is simply too big and too...

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The Ron Paul Breakthrough

Ron Paul is breaking through. His call to return to the vision of the Founders, and the principles embodied in the Constitution, is piercing the wall of silence that surrounds the conduct of our disgraceful foreign policy. Andrea Mitchell proclaims him the new Howard...

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Sunday: 23 Iraqis Killed, 20 Wounded

Updated at 11:55 p.m. EDT, Oct. 7, 2007Although Iraq was generally quiet today, several bombings rocked Baghdad. Overall, 23 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 20 were wounded so far. U.S. forces were involved in yet another controversial incident in which two first...

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Bush-Rice Enduring Victory

Well, according to the New York Times editorialists, the "good news" is that President Bush and Condi Rice are apparently "so eager for an enduring foreign policy victory, in hopes of offsetting their failures in Iraq" that they have agreed to be a...

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Making the Same Mistake Twice

I have no idea whether the president will order an attack on Iran. Seymour Hersh, a reporter I respect, says the Bush administration has decided it would be easier to sell an attack on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards than on Iran's nuclear facilities. Certainly all...

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