When we first set up Antiwar.com, and started covering the outrages of the Kosovo war on a daily basis, we got a lot of emails asking essentially the same question: Why Kosovo? Here, after all, was a Balkan backwater that very few Americans had even heard of, and...
Is there a chance the Bush Administration will do anything other than muddle through with the failed and failing policies put in place by the Clinton administration in Kosovo and the Balkans? Early on some comments by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice...
TURNING A BLIND EYE TO EMPIRE During the High Cold War, the topic of empire was seldom on the table in New Right circles. It was the New Right's1 commitment to winning the anti-Communist crusade – at any conceivable cost – that made it necessary not to...
Encouraged by campaign talk about the virtues of "humility" on the world stage, many hoped that the incoming administration would turn over a new leaf when it comes to foreign policy – or, at least, rake away some of the moldy old leaves left on the White House...
ONE –It’s Saddam’s fault that half a million children died since the economic blockade, saddam could feed his people if he cared instead of using his money to buy weapons – "More than one million Iraqis have died- 500,000 of them children-as a...
In my last column, I celebrated the impending death of Salon.com, the main cyber-repository of liberalism at its most pretentious, and now it is only fair to follow it up with an obituary for National Review – or, at least, the National Review that once was. Once...
One aspect of the dot-com downturn – aside from the sudden sprouting of "For Rent" signs all over San Francisco – is the plethora of obituaries for the Internet, and dot-com journalism in general. No less an authority than Howard Kurtz, media maven of the...
The news from Colombia early this week was anything but encouraging. Over the weekend leftist guerrillas killed six people and kidnapped several others. Bomb attacks in Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city, leveled buildings near a military base and injured three...
It's amazing how the Marc Rich pardon story has taken on so many permutations that the real impact of it is lost – and the real meaning missed. Between the Burton committee's halfhearted investigation, and Mary Jo Whitewash's efforts – not to mention the...
Alarm bells ought to be ringing at the news that as many as 200 US special forces will be traveling to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to open up the latest front in the "war on terrorism." Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, the "ex"-Communist and former...
