Once again the federal government has reached its "debt ceiling," and once again Congress is poised to authorize an increase in government borrowing. Between its ever-growing bureaucracies, expanding entitlements, and overseas military entanglements, the...
Veterans’ Voices Rise in Protest
With the news that members of a U.S. Army Reserve platoon have been arrested in Iraq for refusing a "suicide mission," dissent among veterans of the U.S.-led campaign in that country continues to grow. The recent incident mirrors other stories of troops...
A Conservative Goes Off the Reservation
Former Rep. Bob Barr (R, Ga.) discusses Bush's assault on civil liberties, the war on Iraq, and the crimes of Bill Clinton. Interview conducted by Scott Horton Oct. 2, 2004. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent antiwar and libertarian figures. Download...
Bush Is Making Us Safer?
The complete lack of interest of the Bush administration in actually securing dangerous materials connected to the old, abandoned Iraqi nuclear program has long belied Bush's stated concern with Iraq's alleged weapons as a pretext for the war. James Glanz, William J....
American Exceptionalism
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e041026.html
Remember Abu Ghraib?
Like a giant octopus that occasionally surfaces when prodded – or hungry – the seething mass of sheer malevolence at the core of U.S. foreign policy sometimes breaks through to the front pages – most recently, in Sunday's Washington Post, in the form...
Letters From the Home Front
Last week, at this site, Teri Wills Allison, a mother from Texas whose soldier son is now in Iraq, wrote an up-close and personal piece on "the costs of war" – for her and us. It was a brave essay in which she discussed, among other things, how it feels...
Iran Plays by the Rules –
No Fair!
John Kerry has declared nuke proliferation to be the single most serious threat to our national security and has essentially accused Bush of making that threat worse by his actions with respect to North Korea, Iraq, and Iran and by his undermining of the nuclear...
Spinning Iraqi Opinion at Taxpayer Expense
I find the cover page at the International Republican Institute Web site concerning its recent polling in Iraq to be extremely disturbing. IRI is of course closely linked to the U.S. Republican Party and does the polling with U.S. tax dollars (i.e., you and I are...
Why Are Some American Christians So Bloodthirsty?
It's been going on for years now. Almost daily we read that another child, another parent, another sister or brother, another grandpa or aunt, is killed in Afghanistan or Iraq by U.S. weaponry in Mr. Bush's "war on terror." Sometimes it's a wedding party, or a bunch...