An Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, is one of the few media outlets worldwide to focus on the Israeli far-right's effort to undermine the much-touted "road map" that Bush is throwing like a bone after a banquet to the family pet. The administration is touting...
Somebody hand David Brooks a Kleenex. He's upset that President Bush's victory dance last Thursday was interpreted politically. Boy am I in a terrible mood. I watched and listened to the punditry on President Bush's speech on the USS Lincoln. . . . And what do my...
A while back I wrote a column about cheating and getting ahead in Chinese Universities – I received a torrent of emails demanding how I could brand an entire nation as a nest of liars and cheats. An article this year in the Asia Times by Gary LaMoshi addressed...
How did 19 hijackers manage to decimate the Pentagon, destroy the World Trade Center, and plunge us into a war without end? That is the question we still don't have an answer to, two years after the worst terrorist attack in American history, and, if the Bush...
For a while there, I didn’t think it was all that big a deal when Dubya told the press that the United States has a definite commitment to the defense of Taiwan against military hostility from the mainland Chinese regime. After all, such a commitment was very...
As any survivor of Imperial "liberation" can attest, it is usually followed by the mass conversion to the conquerors' religion, Democracy. As with most religions, it means different things to different people. Its definition is kept deliberately vague to...
