It was all too delicious for words. Francis Fukuyama, the boy wonder of the neocons who had famously pronounced the End of History, sat listening to a lecture by War Party stalwart and neocon comrade Charles Krauthammer, and wondered if the former psychiatrist had...
Gitmo Trials ‘Designed to Convict’
Pre-trial hearings that began Tuesday at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of prisoners taken in the U.S. "war on terrorism" are "designed to convict," says one expert. The lack of attorney-client confidentiality, absence of an...
People of Najaf Trapped in War They Don’t Want
NAJAF - Najaf was in the grip of eerie silence Tuesday despite the U.S. jets flying across clear skies and the sound of mortar blasts that shook the town. After three weeks of often pitched battles between armed followers of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr on the one...
Bush’s Unwilling Poster Children
From Bush press conference on Tuesday: "QUESTION: You're not going to Athens this week, are you? BUSH: Athens, Texas? (LAUGHTER) QUESTION: The Olympics in Greece. BUSH: Oh, the Olympics. No, I'm not. QUESTION: Have you been watching? BUSH: Yes. It's been...
A Pretext for War
James Bamford, veteran journalist and author of A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, discusses neoconservative foreign policy. Interview conducted by Scott Horton. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent...
Hippocratic Oath AWOL at Military Prisons
NEW YORK - Secret detention centers in Iraq and Afghanistan must be included in U.S. military monitoring of prisoner mistreatment, according to an article in the Lancet medical journal that details collusion between medical staff and abusive interrogators. While much...
Neocon Treason
Having experienced the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, do Americans wish they had elected Patrick J. Buchanan president? Was Buchanan America's last chance to put a true patriot in the Oval Office? America was meant to cultivate its own garden, to steer...
The Government Says We Need More Government
The 9-11 Commission report, released late last month, has disrupted the normally quiet Washington August. Various congressional committees are holding hearings on the report this week, even though Congress is not in session, in an attempt to show the government is...
Former Exiles Dominate Iraqi Puppet Govt
In what had been touted as Iraq's first democratic election, last week's tumultuous Iraqi National Conference closed with a four-judge panel selecting a list of candidates for the Interim National Council, leaving the hundreds of delegates invited to the conference to...
Being Pro-War Is Not Necessarily Patriotic
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