Memo to: Paul Volcker As if you don't have enough trouble in preparing your final report to UN General Secretary Kofi Annan on the so-called "Oil-for-Food Scandal," now the U.S. Justice Department has jumped the gun and indicted Houston oilman David Bay Chalmers Jr....
NEW DELHI - Barely 10 days after launching a landmark bus service connecting the two divided parts of Kashmir, India and Pakistan Monday took a giant stride forward by declaring that the peace process between them is "irreversible" and will be pursued...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes on John Bolton's appointment as ambassador to the United Nations Tuesday, they will do so having never asked him about his support for a group called the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, an Iranian dissident group...
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e050419.html
A month ago at TomDispatch, I wrote an essay, "Which War Is This Again?," about the naming of the "war" our president declared in the wake of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The neocons fell in love with the idea of us being in a generational struggle like...
Once the Senate confirms John Bolton to be our ambassador to the United Nations, he vows to "forge a stronger relationship between the United States and the United Nations, which depends critically on American leadership." Like the leadership exhibited when Bush...
That the world is "a carnival of buncombe," as H. L. Mencken put it, is an idea that is proved every day – nay, every hour – as the news of our leaders' cluelessness unfolds, but this past week must have had the old iconoclast shaking the earth over his...
"You know, Josh Burkeen is our rep down here in the southeast area. He lives in Colgate and travels out of Atoka. He was telling me lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think...
Anti-pullout protesters blocked a major highway near Tel Aviv, disrupted an Israeli army graduation ceremony for new officers, and tried to march on a highly sensitive religious site in Jerusalem this week. The three protest actions were launched in just three days by...
The Teetering EmpireGood article, but yet again, not mentioning the WHOLE truth. The truth is simple: a military industrial complex has taken over the U.S. government and is waging wars for the pure and simple reason that wars make money. Not to change countries or to...
