Month: September 2004

Editor’s note: Justin Raimondo is sunning himself on the beach today, but we’ve gotten permission from the kind editors of The American Conservative to reprint this article from the August 2 issue. But, hey, if you haven’t subscribed, you ought to: TAC is the best, most exciting antiwar magazine around – and they’re coming from … Continue reading “The Imperial Personality”

If not getting nuked in your jammies is high on your priority list, then maybe your best bet is to vote for John Kerry. Kerry has just endorsed last October’s Brit-French-German agreement with Iran, whereby they pledged to facilitate "the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peaceful uses … Continue reading “Bush Wins, We Invade Iran”

A few days ago, Taiwan Premier Yu Shyi-kun spoke with think tank scholars at a breakfast gathering in New York. When the conversation turned to China, the Premier was solemn: “If the United States can help overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein to establish democracy in Iraq, why doesn’t Washington treasure Taiwan’s democracy more?” His … Continue reading “Taiwan’s Independence Gambit”

The Pentagon’s decision to admit hearsay evidence at its military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay flies in the face of one of the most important principles in the administration of criminal justice — the right to confront one’s accuser and cross-examine him in the presence of the jury. In fact, our American ancestors deemed the principle … Continue reading “Hearsay Convictions at Guantanamo”

You might want to re-read Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack now that you know the FBI has been attempting for at least two years to determine whether or not the development of that plan and/or associated National Security Presidential Directives (NSPD) involved any acts of treason. Treason? That’s right. Not spying. Treason. It would be … Continue reading “Neocons Preparing the Sequel to Plan of Attack“

It feels good when a public official, especially the president of the United States, speaks the truth, which is what happened on Monday when President George W. Bush uttered words that The Future of Freedom Foundation has been publishing ever since 9/11 — “I don’t think you can win [the war on terror].” Well, duh! … Continue reading “The Endless War on Terrorism”

KATHMANDU – A haunting specter grips Nepal as the Himalayan kingdom mourns the deaths of 12 of its workers murdered in Iraq. There is a strong possibility that the relatives of the dead will never see the return of the bodies of the victims, and this has incensed many Nepalis. In the southern district of … Continue reading “Nepal Wracked by Religious Violence After Iraq Murders”

PARIS – The French ban on Muslim headscarves at school was to have been a domestic, if controversial move when it came into force this week. But the abduction of two journalists over the issue has turned it into an international crisis. The so-called Islamic Army in Iraq kidnapped two French journalists Aug. 20 and … Continue reading “Headscarves Become a Life or Death Issue”

I‘m going to vote against the president because I think he is dangerously inept and quite likely to crash the economy, get us into a bigger war or both. There is nothing personal about it. President George Bush is an affable man. He was probably fine as a governor in a state where governors don’t … Continue reading “Inept President, Craven Congress”

BAGHDAD – Mohammad Rabat is a farmer in his seventies. He lives with his wife and nine children in a single story cement house in what has come to be known as the Green Zone. The Green Zone, or the International Zone as it is also called, is a three square mile area in Baghdad … Continue reading “Baghdad Residents Want Their Neighborhood Back”