Month: May 2004

Americans of a certain age may remember the murder of students on the Kent State University campus 34 years ago and the anger it once aroused. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen killed four college students and wounded nine others – one of them, Dean Kahler, is still paralyzed. He was, reported the FBI, … Continue reading “Wanted: The Truth About The Kent State Killings”

More than two dozen journalists have been killed in Iraq since last year’s launch of the U.S.-led invasion, making the Middle Eastern nation the world’s most dangerous journalist assignment by far, according to the New York-based watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Iraq thus ranked number one among the Ten World’s Worst Places to Be … Continue reading “Iraq is World’s Most Dangerous Journalistic Assignment”

A team of local volunteers wearing surgical masks lifts the rotting body of a middle-aged woman from a shallow grave in the front yard of a house. The house owner says the body lay there three weeks. A U.S. aircraft bombed her car as she fled the city with her husband. The husband was buried … Continue reading “Fallujah: Victory Rises Above a Mass Grave”

I don’t believe in democracy. In some liberal circles this makes me a heretic who should be shot. Less reactive liberals smiled blankly at my consternation at our British government’s collaboration with America in raining down hell on Yugoslavia – for “humanitarian,” cuddly reasons, of course. Letting the people of Yugoslavia kill each other was … Continue reading “Democracy: A Heretic’s View”

US Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the officer who has been at the center of a storm about abuse and torture by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, broke her silence Saturday. General Karpinski was the commander of Abu Ghraib prison. Speaking to the press from her home in South Carolina, General Karpinski … Continue reading “Commander of Torture Prison Blames Army”

On the 25th of April, Australia commemorated Anzac Day – a day that pays tribute to all Australian servicemen in general, but particularly pays homage to those Australians who died during World War I.  It was, predictably, used by the Australian Prime Minister John Howard to bolster support for the increasingly unpopular occupation of Iraq.  … Continue reading “The Lesson of the ANZAC’s”

During the Cold War, Soviet intelligence agencies sometimes provided us "disinformation" – false information, intended to obscure the truth. Hence, there were frequently sharp differences of opinion within our own intelligence community as to whether or not information provided to us by Soviet "traitors-in-place" and/or "defectors" was genuine intelligence or disinformation. Now, anyone who provides … Continue reading “When Intelligence Is Disinformation”

There isn’t time to write this, which is why I’m tapping it out an hour or so into a return flight to San Francisco from New York, where I’ve just spoken to a group of 150 or so. And a most appreciative group it was. I was astonished to discover, however, that my appearance was … Continue reading “Antiwar.com: The Only Alternative”

If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are constantly being propagandized to approve of war – not just the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically. We should resist. War is killing, maiming and disfiguring human beings. It is so disgusting and horrible in reality that … Continue reading “War Propaganda”

Why do Americans who talk about freedom and democracy rely on coercion? The political left is all for coercion against the rich. Freedom and democracy mean taking the rich’s money and giving it to those who have a “right” to it. For conservatives, freedom and democracy issue forth from the barrels of our guns. National … Continue reading “National Review‘s Plan for Victory in Iraq”