Jackie Sanders, special representative of the president for the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, began her address to the Seventh Review Conference of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons by noting that on March 7 of this year, President Bush...
Our Uzbek Problem, and Theirs
A week after Uzbekistan's dictator Islam Karimov crushed a protest in the eastern town of Andijan ordering riot police to fire directly into a crowd, killing as many as 1,000 the death toll is rising and the reaction is growing. Inside the country,...
Star Wars and the American Empire
[Spoiler warning: This article gives away important details about the new movie.] "For a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the Dark Times. Before the Empire." Ben Kenobi "This is how...
Lost History: The February 2002 Koran Incident at Gitmo
The stories of guards and interrogators flushing, stuffing, or dumping Korans in toilets may remain frozen between allegation and denial forever. However, there is another instance of alleged Koran mishandling that has been far better substantiated. As reported by the...
More Manly Galloways, Fewer Slimy Colemans
If you would like a role model on how a manly person should act in front of politicians and the media, I highly recommend the Honorable George Galloway, a member of the British Parliament. A Senate subcommittee out to discredit the United Nations made the mistake of...
Is the US Recruiting for the Insurgency?
The U.S. Army has missed its recruiting goals for the last three months. On Friday, May 20 they stopped recruiting to retrain recruiters who were misleading and threatening potential recruits. At the same time the resistance in Iraq is growing. Is the U.S. military...
Condi-Diplomacy
On arriving for her first visit to South Korea as Secretary of State, Condi Rice undiplomatically went straight to Command Post Tango, the underground bunker from which Air-Naval-Ground operations would be controlled in the even of a "contingent" war with North Korea....
Israeli Arsenal Vexes Nuclear Negotiators
UNITED NATIONS - The U.S. administration has sought to keep a tight focus on the suspected nuclear activities of Iran and North Korea at month-long talks here on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). But other countries also have highlighted the impact of...
Govt Sued Over ‘Political Abuses’ as it Seeks Expanded Security Powers
The U.S. government is engaging in political intimidation and improperly investigating law-abiding advocacy groups, civil liberties groups have charged – even as the U.S. Senate weighs renewing controversial counter-terrorism powers and the White House seeks to...
The Worst Blunder Bush Could Make
I regard a war with China hot or cold as perhaps the greatest strategic blunder the United States could make, beyond those it has already made. The end result would be the same as that from the 20th century wars between Britain and Germany: it reduced...


