Month: July 2003

Not many countries have benefited as much from 9/11 as China has. For almost a year, China stayed off of the US Most Wanted list and stayed on the Best Places to Put Your Cash list. While the US economy faltered amidst scandal, the Chinese economy gained strength from the executions and imprisonments of top … Continue reading “What Military Might?”

Congressman Ron Paul praised two landmark votes in Congress that could mark a turning point in the battle to protect civil liberties threatened by the Patriot Act. Paul has been an outspoken critic of the Patriot Act since its hasty passage in the weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Act endangers civil liberties by … Continue reading “Ron Paul Applauds Congressional Restrictions on Patriot Act”

A half-dozen former CIA agents investigating prewar intelligence have found that a secret Pentagon committee, set up by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2001, manipulated reams of intelligence information prepared by the spy agency on the so-called Iraqi threat and then delivered it to top White House officials who used it to win … Continue reading “CIA Probe Finds Secret Pentagon Group Manipulated Intelligence on Iraqi Threat”

A half-dozen former CIA agents investigating prewar intelligence have found that a secret Pentagon committee, set up by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2001, manipulated reams of intelligence information prepared by the spy agency on the so-called Iraqi threat and then delivered it to top White House officials who used it to win … Continue reading “CIA Probe Finds Secret Pentagon Group Manipulated Intelligence on Iraqi Threat”

The death of Saddam’s two sons was the occasion for a well-organized Team Bush assault on the President’s most potentially dangerous – and unforgiving – enemy: the American public. The Washington Post reports: “The Bush administration made a coordinated effort yesterday to rebuild fading public support for its Iraq policy, using Tuesday’s killing of Saddam … Continue reading “Bremer’s Baghdad Bolsheviks”

The truth about whether or not Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium from Niger has dominated the news for the past several weeks. Many of those challenging the administration on this issue are motivated more by politics than by policy. Some of today’s critics were strongly in favor of going to war against Iraq when … Continue reading “Phony Justifications for War”

The Palestinians have now reached a so-called Hudna, or internal cease-fire. Armed resistance to the occupation, as well as terror attacks on Israeli citizens, have fallen to a minimum: there has not been any massive terror attack since the 11th of June, considerably longer than the "seven days of quiet" demanded in the past by … Continue reading “Behind the Hudna Scenes”

It seems that every day we read about a young American soldier being killed in Iraq. Three were killed in a 24-hour period from Sunday to Monday. In its November 25 issue, “Fortune” magazine, long before the war started, said an American occupation would be “prolonged and expensive” and that it “could turn U.S. troops … Continue reading “Leave Iraq to the Iraqis”

Today’s column was originally written for the History News Network, in response to a piece, “Isolationism Strikes Again,” by Ronald Radosh, originally published as a pamphlet by the neoconservative “Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.” In his screed, Radosh characterized the conservative-led anti-interventionist movement of the 1930s as pro-fascist “appeasers” and sought to conflate it … Continue reading “THE PERVERSION OF HISTORY”

I have just returned from Korea, where I spent a few days at a conference in Asan City, a couple of hours south of Seoul. (Full disclosure note: It was sponsored by the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace, which is part with the constellation of Sun Myung Moon-affiliated organizations. My function was to … Continue reading “Korean Impressions”