Last week John Kerry promised that if he is elected president, Yucca Mountain – the zillion-dollar high-level nuclear waste interim depository in Nevada, whose initial operation Congress approved back in 2002 – would not be allowed to open. "Not on my...
The self-"outing" of New Jersey Governor James McGreevey and his involvement with Golan Cipel, described as a 30-something Israeli "poet," soon degenerated into one of those the-personal-is-the-political soap operas Americans seem to revel in. After hearing...
There will eventually be another terrorist act inside the United States. The question is, How will we react? If we react the same way we did to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we will probably wreck our economy. We should learn from the...
It would be difficult to find a better example of the moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy — and why it has stirred so much anger, hatred, and terrorism against the United States — than the relationship of U.S. officials with Saddam Hussein,...
LONDON - After years of condemning torture in other countries, Britain could now be approving it as official policy. New questions have arisen for the government following a two-to-one ruling by a court of appeal that said the British government had the right to...
With the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 – and the prospect of massive land battles in Central Europe ended – both the Soviet Union and the U.S. began to dismantle tens of thousands of tactical "battlefield" nukes. Two years later, with...
A disengagement divorced from peace negotiations can be very dangerous. Sharon's people say that they don't give a damn what will happen in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal. They are pretending. Behind the scenes, the military and political leadership is...
I don't know what caused it. Maybe it was the president's imperialistic foreign policy. At any rate, I had a sudden urge to read Rudyard Kipling. I reread Kim and The Jungle Book. Both of these are excellent works for your children to read. Kim, the little friend of...
We saw butterflies turning into bombers. And we weren't dreaming. At the time when the Woodstock festival became an instant media legend in mid-August 1969, melodic yearning for peace was up against the cold steel of American war machinery. The music and other...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a campaign to oppose policies of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) that require some 10,000 non-profit groups that raise money through the CFC program to check their employees against federal "watch...
