We now have, just as my Confederate forefathers predicted, an imperial government in Washington. We are the only country in the world that has military forces permanently stationed all over the Earth. All imperialism, even the American form, is ultimately based on...
Embedded Jailbird’s Song?
You don't suppose the principal reason President Bush named Bonkers Bolton to be our Ambassador to the United Nations even though the Senate declined to confirm him was so Bolton could claim "diplomatic immunity" when the Feds come to arrest...
Blaming the Mosques for the Sins of Governments
The deadly terror attacks in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheik Red Sea resort in July and the earlier October 2004 bombings at two other Red Sea resorts seem to have disrupted the consistency of the rationale that links the current terrorism upsurge in the Middle East to the US...
Hiroshima, the Top News Story That Wasn’t
CARACAS The atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 60 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, may have been the most crucial event of the 20th century. But it was not the top news story. That was because censorship and the manipulative media...
Backtalk, August 5, 2005
Pledge WeekOK, Justin, I'm doing the right thing and contributing money to Antiwar.com now. I check the site every day and routinely "talk up" Justin's columns so much among my friends that my wife refers to him as my "buddy Justin." As in, "So, what does your buddy...
Who’s Behind the Coming War With Iran?
Writing in The American Conservative's Aug. 1 issue, former military intelligence and CIA counterterrorism officer Philip Giraldi, now a partner in Cannistraro Associates, says that the vice president (who, according to the U.S. Constitution, has no authority but to...
Constitution: How’s Chances?
It now appears likely that the Iraqis will come up with some sort of written constitution by the Aug. 15 deadline. Although President Bush has expressed aversion to strict deadlines for the United States, both Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the new U.S....
AIPAC Spy Nest Exposed
The other shoe has finally dropped in the case of the spy scandal involving the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In addition to five espionage-related charges filed against former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, two counts of conspiracy to...
World Movement for Democracy: Made in the USA
The "world's democratic movement" is not another one of the transnational citizens' movements, like the anti-globalization or antiwar movements, that prides itself on having no central structure, no dogma, or even an office. This movement is highly organized, better...
Labor Takes Its Stand Against Empire
It is just about the oldest plot cliché there is. As you eagerly anticipate the climax, the villain appears to have subdued everyone who ever thought of standing in his way and is on the precipice of triumph, when suddenly, from out of nowhere, his first victim who...


