by Nebojsa Malic KLA leader Hashim Taqi, Viceroy Bernard Kouchner, General Sir Michael Jackson, KLA commander Agim Ceku, and General Wesley Clark celebrate the victory of their joint enterprise; Pristina, 1999, credit unknown It is normally not within the bounds of...
The Best of Bad Alternatives for the Bush Administration in Iraq
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DONALD RUMSFELD, PEACENIK?
There's a falling out among neocons, reports Jim Lobe of Interpress News Service, and you can bet it isn't going to be pretty. Considering their zeal to purge and smear dissidents on the Right for the slightest deviation – an insufficient devotion to the cult of...
The Most Important Book Since 9/11
Anyone interested in the War on Terrorism must read James Bovard's newest book: Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil. For critics of the War on Terrorism there are two major problems: there's too much information to keep...
War and Red Ink
The president plans to request another $87 billion from Congress to fund operations in Iraq, a number that not surprisingly is much higher than originally called for by the administration. It's not surprising because everything government does costs more than...
Lifting the Wool: Governments Are Mafias, War Is Their Racket
It is unlikely that the veil will be parted long enough for the great casserole of prejudice, misinformation, partial information and (occasionally) accurate perception that pollsters and political scientists are pleased to call "public opinion" to process and absorb...
China Upstages US at Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference
China was the undisputed star of last week's Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) conference in Vienna, leaving Uncle Sam hiding in the wings. The US has always been somewhat impatient with international non-proliferation agreements. Despite a 1992 self-imposed...
What Every Person Should Know About War
A recent essay by Jonathan Turley demonstrates how pervasive, and subtle, government propaganda can be. For instance, few Americans realize how much sway the Defense Department has in Hollywood. The military edits films for negative content, denies access to...
COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Since everything else about this war is a lie – the shifting rationales, the mendacious propaganda, the promises of "democracy" and "liberation" – is anyone really surprised that they're lying about the number of American casualties as well? The British...
Dems on Intel Investigation: That Was Then, This is Now
Democrats in Congress have abandoned their efforts to investigate the White House's use of questionable intelligence information about Iraq's alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, saying the issue has been "eclipsed" by President Bush's request...