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In his provocative documentary Why We Fight, director Eugene Jarecki asks whether Washington’s foreign policy is overly preoccupied with the idea of military supremacy, and if the military has become too important in U.S. life. Jarecki interviews subjects from across the political spectrum, including Wilton Sekzer, a retired New York police officer whose son died … Continue reading “Is War America’s Real National Pastime?”

Wednesday, Sibel Edmonds, former FBI language specialist and a whistleblower, filed a motion in a Washington, D.C., federal court asking for the recusal of Judge Reggie Walton from Edmonds’ pending case filed under the Federal Tort Claim Act. Walton is also currently hearing the perjury case involving I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of … Continue reading “FBI Whistleblower Files Motion for Judge’s Recusal”

In Part 1 of his interview, Chalmers Johnson suggested what that fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall, end-of-the-Cold-War moment meant to him; explored how deeply empire and militarism have entered the American bloodstream; and began to consider what it means to live in an unacknowledged state of military Keynesianism, garrisoning the planet, and with an imperial budget – a real … Continue reading “What Ever Happened to Congress?”

American officials, lawmakers, and pundits have been analyzing – over-analyzing is probably the right term – U.S. President George W. Bush’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), leading one to conclude that the document that was issued last week has major significance in terms of gaining insights into what kind of approach to world affairs the … Continue reading “Muddling Through”

It isn’t looking so good for the War Party. As things fall apart on the ground in Iraq, a similar process of disintegration is occurring on the home front. It seems as if there are almost daily defections from the ranks, and – as the blame game gets underway – our war birds are turning … Continue reading “The War Party in Disarray”

The agreement last week between Washington and Iran to hold direct talks on Iraq has forged a new linkage between the Iraq and Iran crises. Hardliners in the George W. Bush administration are resisting any linkage between the two crises, because they want to avoid pressure for a broader settlement with Iran. But they have … Continue reading “Iran, Iraq Crises Converge Despite US Hardliners”

Savoring the triumph of poking a stick in the eye of an upstart Arab country, U.S. lawmakers are girding for a face-off with a much larger opponent. With the rescue of the American seaboard from a shadowy sheikdom now a mission accomplished, they are steadying their aim at the second largest economy in the world … Continue reading “Those Zany Xenophobes”

Imagine knocking on America’s door and being told, “Americans don’t live here any longer. They have gone away.” But isn’t that what we are hearing, that Americans have gone away? Alan Shore told us so on ABC’s Boston Legal on March 14: “When the weapons of mass destruction thing turned out not to be true, … Continue reading “What’s Become of Americans?”

As he and his wife Sheila drive me through downtown San Diego in the glare of midday, he suddenly exclaims, “Look at that structure!” I glance over, and just across the blue expanse of the harbor is an enormous aircraft carrier. “It’s the USS Ronald Reagan,” he says, “the newest carrier in the fleet. It’s … Continue reading “Cold Warrior in a Strange Land”

Invictus As a Serb from Belgrade who, like many of my compatriots, suffered heavily from the tyranny of Milosevic’s criminal regime, I find Nebojsa Malic’s comments on this site deeply insulting and outrageously misleading. For example, the way Malic regularly describes the events on Oct. 5, 2000, and the democratic changes that followed can only … Continue reading “Backtalk, March 22, 2006”