What is Prof. Dr. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ward Casscells' mission in the Middle East? In February 2002, Ambassador Joseph Wilson was sent by the CIA on a mission to Africa. This became publicly known in July 2003, when he published a New York Times OpEd, "What I...
Judy-Baby vs. Time
Judy, Judy, Judy! Undeterred by her 85 days in jail, the neo-crazy media sycophant is at it again, this time in the Wall Street Journal. According to Judith Miller: "When Libya dramatically declared on Dec. 19, 2003, that it was abandoning its rogue ways, President...
What People Believe
How do you persuade a man who has a wife and children and who works hard but can barely make ends meet to take a pay cut and go do something that has a high probability of getting him killed or seriously injured? Clearly, it is not in a man's self-interest to go to a...
Iran’s Snub Calls for New EU Offer
NEW DELHI Iran's rebuff to a European "package of incentives," including a light-water nuclear power reactor, in return for halting uranium enrichment, marks a serious escalation of tensions with the West. But it does not close the doors to solving...
U.S. Groups Hail Censure of Washington’s ‘Terror War’
Human rights organizations here are hailing the recommendations of the United Nations Committee Against Torture that the United States close its Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center, cease holding detainees in secret prisons, and stop the practice of...
Reversing Policy, U.S. ‘Froze’ Iran Talks in March
In yet another apparent episode of the inability of the White House to steer a consistent diplomatic course in the Middle East, a new report says that the George W. Bush administration ordered U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad in March to postpone indefinitely the...
A Foreign Policy of Fools
A shining city on a hill. A light unto the world. That's what early Americans hoped their land would become. A beacon of liberty, beckoning others to follow. A place of refuge and hope for those fleeing tyranny or seeking opportunity. An oasis in the midst of conflict...
How the Bush Administration Deconstructed Iraq
After five months of confusion, bickering, dickering, dithering, and strong-arm tactics from Zalmay Khalilzad, our ambassador to Iraq, and various high American officials arriving on the fly, Prime Minister-designate Nouri al-Maliki has reportedly chosen his cabinet,...
Bombs Away! Or Bomb Any Way
December 2001: the U.S. Air Force dropped the 15,000-pound "Daisy Cutter" on the cave complex in Afghanistan known as Toro Bora. At the time, this was the largest bomb in the U.S. arsenal. The same month, the Pentagon sent 10 of the more lethal 2,000-pound thermobaric...
Will Canada Remain a ‘Refuge From Militarism’?
"Our children did not enlist to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity," said Cindy Sheehan, the prominent American antiwar activist who lost her son. During a visit to Ottawa last week, she called on Canada to welcome war resisters as refugees. The call comes...


