Remember how the sanctions were the equivalent of "genocide" committed by the Evil American Imperialists against the Oppressed Peoples of Iraq? Well, that was then, according to Rahul Mahajan, writing on AlterNet, and reprinted in Counterpunch and Commie...
Hard Lessons in Democracy
Well, we're certainly teaching the Iraqi people about democracy – and as it is actually practiced, which is not necessarily the way those whose exposure has been limited to civics textbooks might expect it to be practiced. It features intrigue, behind-the-scenes...
Classic Raimondo: Living in Soviet America
Justin is ill today, but his column will be back on Wednesday. Here is a classic column from last year. June 10, 2002A C-Net news item, with the ominous title of "FBI digs deeper into the Web," details how the feds will be tracing the digital trails people...
We’re All Israelis Now – Except for the Palestinians
Westernization is proceeding smoothly in Iraq, if imitation of Israel is your yardstick, anyway. Iraqis have demonstrated that they too can evict Palestinians, and with admirable swiftness. You see, many of those who fled to Iraq after 1948 were placed, ironically, in...
Asymmetric Politics
In 1967, as the War in Vietnam dragged on and on, Carl Oglesby, then President of Students for a Democratic Society, commented on how the Right Wing saw that war. Most of the Right, he noted, "accepts the political description" of the war and, therefore, "wants it the...
Smoking Gun
The mystery of 9/11 only gets murkier as time goes on. How did a rag-tag group of 19 (plus one) conspirators manage to hijack three airliners and crash them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon – without so much as a small blip showing on law...
Worshippers of Power and Violence
One thing that more than anything else defines the contemporary patchwork of states that used to be Yugoslavia – with the notable exception of Slovenia – are the 1990s Succession Wars. They are the Genesis myth, at the heart of their governments' source of...
Mad Dogs of War
The mad dogs of war, unleashed by George W. Bush, are baying and barking up a storm. The War Party isn't resting on its laurels. The conquest of Iraq had hardly been celebrated by our President, as he landed on an aircraft carrier in a fighter jet and bounded out to...
Libertarians and War
I've been surprised by the number of libertarians who have supported the war against Iraq. The two principal arguments I've heard from libertarian war-supporters are: 1. Saddam Hussein is a threat to the U.S. We must remove him from power before he attacks us or gives...
A Civilian Face on Imperialism
With the naming of former ambassador L. Paul Bremer as something of a co-consul proconsul (the news accounts say he will be in charge with former Gen. Jay Garner his subordinate but the real picture at this point is still a little fuzzy, the administration has...