It has been often said that war is the health of the state but the argument could also be made that the reverse is more true: that the state is the health of war. In other words, that war the greatest of all human evils is impossible without the...
Unlike Bush, bin Laden Keeps His Word
Now that he's under pressure to defend his domestic spying program, President Bush is suddenly very worried about Osama bin Laden. And Bush says if we had any sense, we'd also be worried about bin Laden and stop bitching about the loss of our Fourth Amendment rights....
Political Earthquake in Palestine
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e060131.html
To MOX or Not to MOX
After four years of intense debate, President Bush has apparently decided to override President Carter and Greenpeace and "close the fuel cycle." Carter had essentially prohibited the "recycling" of "spent" nuclear fuel and required all...
Realists, Isolationists, and Neocons: A Primer
Scott McConnell is the editor of The American Conservative, a magazine he founded with Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos in 2002. McConnell has a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and was formerly the editorial page editor of The New York Post. He has been...
US Realignment With Sunnis Is Far Advanced
Two major revelations this past week show how far the George W. Bush administration has already shifted its policy toward realignment with Sunni forces to balance the influence of pro-Iranian Shi'ites in Iraq. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad revealed in an interview...
Backtalk January 30, 2006
Unfathomed Dangers in PATRIOT Act ReauthorizationIf people only knew that it's a question of jurisdiction: a FEDERAL police force can only have jurisdiction over FEDERAL areas and territories. They do not (cannot) have jurisdiction in the states unless the states give...
Assad Keeps Footing Amid Political Tremors
WASHINGTON - Despite a UN probe into his possible role in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and a public challenge to his rule by a prominent Syrian politician in exile, Syrian President Bashar Assad appears likely to endure for the foreseeable...
Domestic Lying: The Question Journalists Don’t Ask Bush
With great fanfare the other day, Oprah Winfrey asked James Frey a question that mainstream journalists refuse to ask George W. Bush: "Why would you lie?" Many pundits and news outlets have chortled at the televised unmasking of Frey as a liar. The reverberations have...
Does Democracy Boulevard Lead to Islamism?
The neoconservatives who dreamed up the Bush Doctrine promoting "democracy" would be the U.S. mission in the Middle East may be about to hold yet another "Seconds Thoughts" conference. Certainly, Israel must be having second thoughts on the folly of...


