"What are words for, when no one listens anymore?" - Missing Persons Michael Ignatieff is, by almost any measure, much smarter than the average bear. I am likely to be one of those bears, as are you. Dr. Ignatieff, in fact, is a well-regarded professor of...
In the "old days" of the U.S. peace movement, when many people focused on the threat of a global nuclear "exchange" an organization called Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) postulated what would happen if a major American city was actually...
Cindy Sheehan's valorous work at Crawford has not only set off the beginning of a new antiwar movement, but has revealed a deep chasm in American society. Not a single important Democratic leader traveled to Crawford to support Cindy Sheehan (unless you count Al...
It is important to be responsible in discussing the aftermath of what seems to be developing into the worst, most destructive national disaster in this nation's history. There is a human tendency to fix blame, and in the political arena to fix blame on one's political...
Impeachee Bill Clinton probably wishes he'd never met Monica. George Bush may rue the day he met Katrina. Why? Because at a time when Louisiana and Mississippi National Guardsmen were desperately needed in their home states to do the job they were trained to do –...
The man in the Oval Office is fond of condemning "killers." But his administration continues to kill with impunity. "They can go into Iraq and do this and do that," Martha Madden, former secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental...
ARBIL - Despite the signing of a draft constitution by the Iraqi constitutional panel comprising mainly Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders, Sunnis are still seeking amendments to the text. Iraqi leaders agreed to a common text Sunday, but did not send it to parliament for...
Iraq: The Democrats Are Just As BadIn his column, "Iraq: The Democrats Are Just As Bad," Justin Raimondo offers this as to why both parties uphold the occupation:"[I]t is the natural tendency of the Washington elites to assume the efficacy of government...
Holed up on the tenth floor of a building in downtown New Orleans, one Michael Barnett, a former Special Forces soldier who works for the domain registrar Directnic.com, sends out this distress signal: "In case anyone in national security is reading this, get the word...
With state, local, and federal officials still grappling with the extent of the devastation and human suffering inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and points east, suggestions that the already plunging political standing of President George W. Bush could...
