Month: October 2003

They normally come in the form of simple, one or two-paragraph queries, affectionately, and sometimes not so affectionately, referred to by his underlings and colleagues as "snowflakes." But Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld’s latest ruminations blew in like a freak autumn blizzard, catching official Washington off-guard and leaving spokespersons scrambling for guidance that could reassure reporters, … Continue reading “Rumsfeld’s Ruminations Reinforce Reservations”

It’s said that you can judge a man by who his enemies are and what they’re willing to say about him to shut him down. With that in mind, it might be instructive to examine what the political enemies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky have said about him. David Horowitz, reformed … Continue reading “Does Noam Chomsky Hate America?”

The leak of a memo written by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld confessing that the Iraq war is going to be “a long, hard slog” has dealt a body blow to the War Party – and signals a new level of desperation on the part of the radical clique that lured us into the … Continue reading “RUMMY’S RUMINATIONS”

Sometime in the morning of October 19, Alija Izetbegovic passed away in a Sarajevo hospital, marking the end of an era for Bosnia. The treatment of his death spoke volumes about his actions in life. While Muslims mourned the “father of the nation” and Western press and leaders sang him praises, over half of Bosnia’s … Continue reading “The Real Izetbegovic”

The image was not an edifying one: the president of the United States a horse, his vice president, the rider. But that is the image Sen. Joseph Biden, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, used to describe the power relationship between U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in … Continue reading “Cheney’s the One”

A child born in America today is $124,000 in debt the moment he draws his first breath. The newborn’s inherited debt grows daily. Upon reaching working age, an enormous debt awaits. How does a newborn get into debt prior to having a mortgage, credit card and car payment? Easy. Government assigns each newborn child a … Continue reading “A Hegemon No More”

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The U.S. military should be investigating the deaths of dozens of Iraqi civilians killed by its troops; instead, it is not even keeping track of their numbers, says a report released here Tuesday. In an investigation undertaken in late September, Human Rights Watch collected what it called credible reports of 94 civilian deaths at the … Continue reading “US Ignores Soldiers’ Killings of Civilians”

It was just a brief item published in the New York Times, reporting yet another attack on our soldiers in Iraq: one American paratrooper killed, six wounded. At first glance, “One G.I. Killed in New Attack in Falluja” gave no hint of the horror behind the headline, but in the second of four paragraphs we … Continue reading “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS”

A neo-conservative strategist who has long called for the United States and Israel to work together to "roll back" the Ba’ath-led government in Syria has been quietly appointed as a Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. David Wurmser, who had been working for Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John … Continue reading “New Cheney Adviser Sets Syria In His Sights”