Quote of the day: "'I don't think that the world gives us the luxury of picking areas,' [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas] Feith said. 'We have interests all over the world. I dare say that if anybody before September 11, 2001, was listing places that we...
Approach my inferences in the following with caution. It can be dangerous to infer too much from experiences and anecdotes separated by a long period of time, especially when events have intervened that might offer a more satisfactory explanation. With that caution,...
There is growing agreement among antiwar activists that the Bush administration's two main political vulnerabilities on Iraq are personnel issues and the cost of the war. To the extent that we agree on this, we need to devise strategies and tactics that aim at those...
The apparent decision by European leaders to delay the lifting of their 16-year-old arms embargo on China beyond June marks a clear-cut foreign policy victory for U.S. President George W. Bush, who made the issue a major priority in his visit to Europe last month....
Counter-recruitment has become a key battleground in the effort to stop the war in Iraq and prevent future military adventures by President Bush and a compliant Congress. The U.S. Army admits that it expects to miss its recruiting goals this month and next and is...
LONDON - Seventy-eight journalists were killed last year in the course of their work, a survey by the Vienna-based International Press Institute shows. The IPI 2004 review "Impunity Lives, While Journalists Die" published Tuesday also condemns the...
Six Years Later, Kosovo Still Wrong In the early hours of March 24, 1999, NATO began the bombing of what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. For some reason, many in the targeted nation thought the name of the operation was "Merciful Angel." In...
Editor's note: The following is a statement by Daniel Ellsberg on the recent indictment of Mordechai Vanunu in Israel for his violation of restrictions banning him from speaking to foreigners or giving interviews to foreign journalists. Ellsberg has just returned from...
A couple of tedious paragraphs into her paean to George Bush, scribbler Suzanne Fields divulges triumphantly that she hangs with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. These two Beltway Babes got together last week to dish "over a Danish and a cup of black coffee."...
It looks like we have yet another color-coordinated "democratic" revolution: this time, the color is pink, and the country is the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, where about half the nation lives below the poverty line and the Kyrgyzstani leader, Askar Akaev, is...
