Back in 2003, the Brits, French and Germans entered into negotiations they hoped would result in an agreement providing "objective guarantees" to the European Union that "Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes." This agreement was to equally...
The BBC’s striking revelations regarding the secretive and disconcerting British role in making an Israeli nuclear bomb possible, deserves more than a quick pause and a few dozen news reports. It obliges a thorough investigation coupled with a complete reversal...
In 1972, after many years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wrote: "In that time, I have seen it first as a problem; then as a stalemate; then as a crime." That aptly describes three key American perspectives now brought...
I heard a lecture by an Army psychologist who contended that after 90 days of combat, the casualty rate was 98 percent. Those not wounded physically were wounded psychologically. The other 2 percent were psychopaths. His passing remark about the psychopaths was...
The willingness of far too many Americans to patiently accept the rationale of Administration talking points through every twist and turn, through every flip-flop, through every Presidential renunciation of previously sacred American civic principles, may at long last...
In January of this year, Rep. Curt Weldon made a speech to the House of Representatives – a speech which no one took notice of, and which hardly anyone heard, except maybe inveterate C-SPAN watchers – in which he made a number of extraordinary assertions:...
Rumors and leaks continue to swirl around the case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame and the various journalists and Bush "senior administration officials" believed to be involved in some fashion in her outing. Whole forests have undoubtedly been pulped for...
Female Circumcision Surfaces in IraqIt's just before 2:00 a.m. on the east coast, and the fifth headline from the top on Antiwar.com – immediately after the report about nine more U.S. military deaths – announces that female circumcision has, ah,...
Mitchell B. Lerner, editor, Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light (University Press of Kansas, 2005). In Mitchell Lerner's informative and worthwhile collection of essays by a group of historians scrutinizing LBJ's domestic and foreign policies...
Mid-August 2005 may be remembered as a moment in U.S. history when the president could no longer get away with the media trick of solemnly patting death on its head. Unreality is a hallmark of media coverage for war. Yet – most of all – war is about death...
