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...
Neocons Turning on Bush?
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...
Neo-Cons Cry ‘Appeasement’ Over Taiwan
Whose Peace?
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...
New Activist Network Slams Growing Abuses Under Bush
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...
Twisted Words, False Justice
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...
'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...
AIPAC Dinner Draws Peaceful Protest
"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...
Winning Over Arabs Using Israeli Tactics
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Here We Go Again
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...