Month: December 2003

The advocates of war in the Middle East, now in panic mode, have resorted to concocting third-rate fiction to support the occupation of Iraq. Consider this email that National Review stalwart Cliff May claimed to have gotten from a real live Iraqi [who presumably reads NR for the stories and not the salacious pin-up stuff … Continue reading “Case Forged”

Bill Kristol raises the dread specter of Howard Dean in the White House, and it’s all because the President’s hawkish impulses are being somehow subverted by out-of-line subordinates: “While Bush is committed to victory in that war, his secretary of state seems committed to diplomatic compromise, and his secretary of defense to an odd kind … Continue reading “Neocons Turning on Bush?”

Much has been written lately about several attempts to craft an alternative peace plan in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The best known of these recent plans – the “Geneva Initiative” – was conceived and written by representatives of both sides of the conflict, but without the involvement of governments or politicians. As such, it is … Continue reading “Whose Peace?”

Key U.S. civil liberties and social justice groups marked International Human Rights Day Wednesday by launching a new "US Human Rights Network" dedicated to raising awareness about international human rights standards and focusing attention on the US failure to enforce them. More than 50 groups, ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the … Continue reading “New Activist Network Slams Growing Abuses Under Bush”

Many words – and through them, concepts – have been cheapened and corrupted by their abuse in the cause of power. “Genocide” is one, used with increasing frequency in victim politics to discredit an enemy and demand assistance. “Terrorism” comes to mind nowadays. There is also the deliberate but erroneous conflation of “liberty” and “democracy,” … Continue reading “Twisted Words, False Justice”

‘Antiwar.com Joins Ranks of Major Online Media‘ I‘m not at all surprised myself, though very, very proud of you guys. If it weren’t for Antiwar.com, I truly believe that at least some of the unbelievably vast amounts of disinformation being put out by the administration and the Pentagon would have leeched into my head. Your … Continue reading “”

“Who are we? AIPAC! What do we want? Apartheid! When do we want it? NOW!” This was one of the most accusatory cries to be heard from the group of nearly fifty activists that gathered on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California Monday night to protest the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee at their Annual Northwestern … Continue reading “AIPAC Dinner Draws Peaceful Protest”

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A close read of President Bush’s November addresses at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington and at the Whitehall Palace in London leads a traditionalist almost to despair. George Bush did not write this democratist drivel. This is the kind of messianic rhetoric he probably never heard before he became president. Who is putting … Continue reading “Here We Go Again”