Skepticism Over Renewed Military Ties With Indonesia

The State Department's decision to renew military training for Indonesia – a major step toward full normalization of military ties between the United States and the giant archipelago – has been greeted with skepticism by human rights groups and some...

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Backtalk, February 28, 2005

Sex, Lies, and Jeff Gannon Dear Mr. Raimondo, I am a frequent reader of your articles and admire your writing. In your recent article, you write: "As a gay man, I can't say that I understand Gannon's appeal to his clients in the escort business – a 47-year-old...

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Pyongyang Waits for Spring

If you go back to its Nuclear Posture Review of 2001 and its National Security Strategy of 2002, the Bush administration was then keen to posit an American-dominated globe until the end of time. According to those documents, such domination would involve allowing...

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Democracy, a Free Press, and Other Fantasies

S.Y. Agnon, the famous Israeli writer, once toyed with the idea that the German culture was all but forgotten, with German scholars traveling all over the world, desperately looking for exiled German Jews who were the last to preserve the lost German culture and save...

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Bye-Bye, NPT; Hello, Mushroom Cloud

"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous," President Bush said as he emerged from talks with European Union leaders. Ridiculous? Let's hope so. For, according to Sirus Naseri, a senior member of Iran's...

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Cornering the Dragon: Bad Idea

When newly appointed CIA Director Porter Goss recently warned that China's modernization of its military posed a direct threat to the U.S., was it standard budget time scare tactics? Or did it signal the growing influence of hard-liners in the Bush administration who...

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Man, Technology and State

  Listen to Scott's interview with Brian Doherty stream download mp3     It's clear at this point in the history of our nation that the national government is not limited in any serious way by the restrictions placed upon it in the Constitution. The...

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