Condi Rice's European debut as our second female Secretary of State provoked – at least amongst the media elite in Paris and London – a feeding-frenzy. She has become – and may well remain – a media darling. [You may recall that our first...
Could Bush Possibly Make the Same Mistake Twice? Yeah.
The Bush administration is making the same mistakes with Iran that it made with Iraq. It makes allegations unsupported by facts, refuses to negotiate and threatens sanctions or military action, neither of which is feasible. In short, it has no rational Iran policy....
HR 418: A National ID Bill Masquerading as Immigration Reform
Watch Ron Paul deliver this speech to the House of Representatives on video. I rise in strong opposition to HR 418, the REAL ID Act. This bill purports to make us safer from terrorists who may sneak into the United States, and from other illegal immigrants....
Kashmir’s Untouched Village
I met Muzamil Jaleel, the Kashmir Bureau Chief for the Indian Express, last spring while teaching at the University of California (Berkeley) Graduate School of Journalism. He was on a brief leave from his civil-war-torn land, but every passing story he happened to...
Cracks Appear in Truce Already
JERUSALEM Having bathed in the dreamy tranquility of Sharm El-Sheikh and imbibed the heady atmosphere of their ceasefire summit at the Egyptian Red Sea resort, both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas returned to...
We Have Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself
Suppose you are the party responsible for invading a country under totally false pretenses. Suppose you had totally unrealistic expectations about the consequences of your gratuitous aggression. What do you do when, instead of being greeted with flowers, you find your...
Liberals and Neocons: Together Again
The neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) has signaled its intention to continue shaping the government's national security strategy with a new public letter stating that the "U.S. military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it...
Dim Hopes for Peace
Unfortunately, it should hardly come as a surprise that it took about a day into what most of the world press called a cease-fire though the principals were careful not to use the word for the first fatality to occur by gunshot. According to the Israeli...
Which Way Out of Iraq?
Antiwar.com columnist Ivan Eland talks exit strategy with Scott Horton. Interview conducted Feb. 5, 2005. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian personalities. Listen to Streaming Audio Download MP3 Ivan Eland is senior fellow and...
Iran War Drums Beat Harder
Despite the Bush administration's insistence that, at least for now, it remains committed to using diplomatic means to halt Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, war drums against the Islamic Republic appear to be beating more loudly here. Secretary of State...


