Feeling vindicated by dramatic events in the Middle East since the Iraqi elections Jan. 30, especially the growing international clamor for Syria to withdraw from Lebanon, neoconservatives are calling on President George W. Bush to seize the moment by pressing for...
Taysir Doesn’t Deserve This
Al-Jazeera's correspondent Taysir Alouni is in a Madrid jail for no other reason than challenging the Western and distinctively the American narrative of the Third World. Alouni is not a terrorist, and Spanish High Court judge Baltasar Garzon knows this very well. In...
Lebanon: Hope and Trepidation
Well, it is not that difficult to see that something potentially quite important is happening in Lebanon. It certainly seems to be a move in the direction of independence and the idea of a civil society with democratic underpinnings and the move is reflected or...
Nuclear Threat Dwarfs Existing Treaties
U.S. President George W. Bush must be prepared to make major compromises if he wants a tougher nonproliferation regime to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to countries that do not now have them, according to a new report released here Thursday by the Carnegie...
A Fascist America
The idea that America is turning fascist has been popular on the Left for as long as I can remember: in the 1960s, when antiwar radicals raged against the Machine, this kind of hyperbole dominated campus political discourse and even made its way into the mainstream....
A Less Super Superpower
There is a bleak wondrousness to this American world of ours. The Bush administration, after all, loathes fundamentalists those dangerous fanatics in strange lands with bizarre medieval belief systems, who wish us such ill and are more than ready to go to some...
Consequences of the Hague Inquisition
"Beatings will continue until morale improves." - Modern American joke This week, the heat under the bubbling Balkans cauldron has been stoked by the Hague Inquisition, and more so than usual. In addition to the obligatory quota of Serb generals, among the...
Get Real, America
If you've been listening to the story-line composed by American officials promoting the Bush administration's foreign policy, you might have concluded that two recent international developments are all part of the Freedom Narrative. The two developments are the...
10 Ways to Protect Your Child From the ASVAB
"Many parents have experienced the eerie intuition that tells them their child is in danger." - Jesus on Parenting "Mom, there's this test we're supposed to take tomorrow," my daughter told me one night last year, "but I have a funny feeling about it. Our guidance...
Bush Keeps Fueling the Fire
Listen to Scott's interview with Eric Margolis stream download mp3 When Seymour Hersh last appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, he explained the administration's foreign policy agenda to host Jon Stewart. After noting that this agenda was the work of the...


