The Last Days of Constitutional Rule?

The Bush administration's greatest success is its ability to escape accountability for its numerous impeachable offenses. The administration's offenses against US law, the US Constitution, civil liberties, human rights, and the Geneva Conventions, its lies to Congress...

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Taiwan, a Spark Plug for War

Taiwan has been an ally and friend of the U.S. for more than five decades. But with the emergence of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the world stage, the so-called Republic of China (ROC) has become a possible flashpoint for war. If America and the PRC come to...

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The Exaggerated Terror Threat

Interview conducted March 6, 2007. Listen to the interview. Is Iraq a distraction from the real War on Terrorism? Is there a real War on Terrorism? What exactly is the threat to the Heimatland? (That's "Homeland" in the original German.) To help discuss these...

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War Drags the Dollar Down

See the faint jet plumes overhead? Once soaring high through the celestial sphere of finance, the dollar is starting to lose orbit – tugged by the drag of war. But this time it's different. It's different because war is being waged in a monetary climate that has...

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Backtalk, March 15, 2007

End of Cowboy Diplomacy, Part II? Dear Mr. Lobe, I am very grateful for your perceptive and rich articles, and I have been reading them for years. This last piece is particularly encouraging. In addition to the strong case you make about the ascendancy of the...

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Desperately Seeking a Leader

Zoran Djindjic, prime minister and the most powerful man in Serbia since the October 2000 coup, was assassinated on March 12, 2003. Fate would have it that Slobodan Milosevic, the man Djindjic helped overthrow, and whom he illegally extradited to the Hague Inquisition...

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Reducing the Risk of Nukes

In October 2002, President Bush made the case for waging war against Iraq by raising the specter of nuclear terrorism: "If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could...

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Olmert Reveals the Real Goal of War in Lebanon

Israel's supposedly "defensive" assault on Hezbollah last summer, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed in a massive aerial bombardment that ended with Israel littering the country's south with cluster bombs, was cast in a definitively...

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