Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) enunciates the moral, logical, and Constitutional case against meddling in the China/Taiwan dispute. This speech was delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives July 14, 2004.
Do We Want a War Criminal as President?
Antiwar activists who thought they were going to be able to communicate their views to Democratic party delegates in Boston this week are in for an unpleasant surprise: "Protesters for the next few days will be enclosed in a shadowy, closed-off piece of urban...
The Committee on the Present Confusion
With full-page ads in The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Washington Times trumpeting its slide down the spillways, The Committee on the Present Danger has been relaunched. The 1970s committee of Republican hawks and neoconservatives denounced détente and...
From China to Frankfurt
Frankfurt's Cathedral looks out over the Main River and over into Old Sachsenhausen, as it has for the past 400 years – a focus point for artists and authors, medieval farmers and merchants, Cold War GIs, Turkish and Colombian bars and, most recently, East Asian...
Iran’s Next
For at least two years the Bush-Cheney administration has been demanding that the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors judge Iran to be in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Should the IAEA Board make such a judgment, it would...
Backtalk July 26, 2004
Daily Show with George Bush I must say I have several things in which I disagree with the Bush administration, just as I had several things I disagreed with when Pres. Clinton was in office. I am 58-years-old, follow politics on a regular basis, have watched our...
Exactly How Has Bush’s War Made Us Safer?
President Bush claims that his war on Iraq has made Americans safer. His primary rationale is that by removing from power a foreign dictator who was supposedly bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction, Americans are safer as a result. Unfortunately for the...
Arabs: It’s the Policy, Stupid
If U.S. President George W. Bush thinks his "war on terror" is winning Arab hearts and minds, he should think about conducting it much differently than he has over the past two years... Beginning with changing his policies. That is the unavoidable conclusion of the...
Destroying Freedom to Save It
Linda Ronstadt dedicated a song to Michael Moore and his film Fahrenheit 9/11 and got the boot from the Aladdin Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. They treated her shabbily, escorting her out of the building without allowing her to return to her room. This came after...
Fun with Bio-Terror
On the same day the "Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States" [pdf] was released, President Bush signed into law the Project Bioshield Act of 2004. Project BioShield is authorized to spend $5.6 billion over a five-year...