Some flavor of the new president can be gathered from this recent FNS interview. Federal News Service May 27, 2004 (Note: The following was translated from Arabic) QUESTION: Would you be willing to intervene personally in trying to stop the fighting at Annajaf al...
Courting Disaster: Bush’s Real Strategy in Iraq
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040601.html
U.S. Public Diplomacy
In politics, the name of the game is often zero sum. At times one country may have a positive advantage in reputation and influence while others like North Korea, China and Cuba may be on the negative side. At the end of World War II, no country could compete with the...
The United States of Boeing
The U.S. has, slowly, since the beginning of the twentieth century, become a giant weapons factory. A partnership between massive private firms and government exists, all funded by the U.S. taxpayer. One of the largest such firms is Boeing. Boeings history...
Has Bush Become a Realist?
America may be heading home from Iraq sooner than many of us realize. For the implied message of the president's address at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., is that America wants out of Iraq. Rereading that speech, one finds in it little of Churchill's...
C’est la Guerre
When President Bush declared War on Terrorism, he pledged to prevent regimes such as North Korea, Iran and Iraq from providing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons to terrorists. Of course, Iran and Iraq had both developed chem-bio weapons and had...
On Their Way to Abu Ghraib
ABU SIFFA, IRAQHow could this happen? nearly everyone asks these days. But as the U.S. now releases hundreds of men from Abu Ghraib prison, another question, Why were so many Iraqis locked up there in the first place? is likely to...
India Seeks to Repeal Its PATRIOT Act
NEW DELHI, (IPS) - India's ousted right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not been looking kindly at moves by the new Congress party-led government to undo its policies, warning against plans to repeal anti-terrorist laws introduced after the Sept. 11, 2001...
Iraq, R.I.P.
Retired three-star general William E. Odom, who once headed the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration, is no peacenik. Nor would anyone outside the David Horowitz wing of the War Party call him "anti-American," but General Odom believes the time...
The Problem Is At the Top
SEA ISLE, NJ - Theres a simple ceremony in this ocean town on Memorial Day. People gather in the morning in the town square, taps are played, theres a gun salute and then theres a short walk to the beach, a block away. To honor the naval dead,...


