Just in the last few days, according to USA Today, a "propaganda video purportedly made by al-Qaeda-linked terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi" has been released showing suicide attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq supposedly inspired by or ordered by him. Since George...
OAKLAND, California - A specter is again haunting U.S. colleges and universities. At the beginning of the Cold War in the early 1950s, Joseph McCarthy, the infamous Republican senator from Wisconsin, stalked the political landscape recklessly hurling charges that...
Never mind all that folderol about Iraq's burgeoning insurgency: those bombs going off everywhere, the kidnappings, and the complete inability of the U.S.-installed Iraqi government to keep order in the streets of their own capital city – "The war is over," says...
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President Bush will no doubt have UN Ambassador John Bolton – once ensconced – demand the Security Council endorse the implementation of his Proliferation Security Initiative. That is, demand the Security Council endorse the use of (1) economic sanctions;...
As U.S. citizens mark their annual celebration of patriotism, the Fourth of July holiday, they might do well to also ponder the specter of two other "isms" that threaten the Republic's durability and strength raised by two important books published over the past year....
All kinds of scandals are looming on the horizon, like summer storms sizzling with lightning: the resulting deluge may be enough to soak the War Party to the skin, and, in the process, prove oddly refreshing for the rest of us. First, the long-simmering Valerie Plame...
Daniel Ellsberg is quite a remarkable man. He defied the law, his future, an entire career's worth of brainwashing, and important friendships in order to leak the truth about the Vietnam War to the people of America. Richard Nixon so feared the man that he sent CIA...
With a record 57 percent of Americans now believing that the Bush administration deliberately misled the U.S. into a war with Iraq, and a plurality of Americans believing Bush is more responsible for starting the war than Saddam Hussein, the president took to the...
Disgrace Disgrace: this is one of my first emotions when I watch the settlers' uprising against the eviction of the settlements of Gaza and a couple in the West Bank. Take a look at these guys: adults and youth, men and women, with no fear, no hesitations, no need to...
