31 July 2003 | Uncategorized | Ran HaCohen
It is high time to reiterate the favourite media question – "Is Arafat Unable, or Rather Unwilling to Stop Terrorism" – but with a different protagonist. Prime Minister Sharon has now been in office for about 15 months. He has been enjoying total and unprecedented freedom, both nationally and internationally, to fight Palestinian terrorism however [...]
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31 July 2003 | Uncategorized | Nebojsa Malic
It would be deeply unfair to offer only a list of dreadful books about the Balkans Wars and not mention the other kind – the books that help the overall understanding of the region and the turmoil it has been undergoing for the past decade or so. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the number of [...]
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30 July 2003 | Uncategorized | Christopher Deliso
On Sunday, Paul Wolfowitz stated that even "murky" intelligence requires pre-emptive military action. Aimed at deflecting attention from growing pressure on the Bush Administration over Iraq, Wolfowitz’s remarks instead highlighted all that is wrong with the Administration’s approach to foreign policy – as well as their increasing desperation as the attacks continue, the casualties [...]
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30 July 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
The “fence,” as the Israelis and their amen corner in the U.S. call it, is actually a wall, about 25 feet high: higher than the Berlin Wall. Like every atrocity carried out by the Israeli government, it is being sold as a “defensive” measure, but is in reality an act of aggression, cutting off large [...]
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30 July 2003 | Uncategorized | matt
Sixty years after it was dropped on Salzburg, a U.S. bomb explodes, killing the two men who tried to defuse it. Vietnamese kids keep losing fingers, toes, arms, and legs to a conflict they’re too young to have even forgotten. Hostages of last year’s Chechen theater siege are still collapsing from the elixir that set [...]
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29 July 2003 | Uncategorized | Jason Leopold
Last weekend, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained that the United States at times relied on "murky" intelligence in trying to link Iraq to the al-Qaeda terrorist group, but the war against Iraq was justified despite the fact that the White House is now being dogged by questions about the accuracy of its prewar [...]
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29 July 2003 | Uncategorized | Jason Leopold
Last weekend, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained that the United States at times relied on "murky" intelligence in trying to link Iraq to the al-Qaeda terrorist group, but the war against Iraq was justified despite the fact that the White House is now being dogged by questions about the accuracy of its prewar [...]
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29 July 2003 | Uncategorized | Alan Bock
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, back from a whirlwind tour of Iraq, spent Sunday morning spinning the increasingly troubling aftermath of the war and occupation of Iraq. Seeking to defuse such news as that 13 Americans died during the seven days ending Saturday, he said, according to the AP, that Americans understand (or should [...]
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28 July 2003 | Uncategorized | bsnider
"I know its hard on America. And in some small corner of this vast country in Nevada or Idaho, these places I’ve never been but always wanted to go, there’s a guy getting on with his life, perfectly happily, minding his own business, saying to you the political leaders of this nation: why me? Why [...]
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28 July 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
It was a moment of harmonic convergence, when the fibbers of the left and the prevaricators on the right were aligned in perfect cosmic harmony. Never mind who lied us into war, averred impeached presidential liar Bill Clinton: “What happened, often happens. There was a disagreement between British intelligence and American intelligence. The president said [...]
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