Nuclear China Good, Nuclear Iran Bad?Paul – What is with the Republican and conservative rant? You would make a lot of sense if you included the Democrats. They are in it together. If you have not caught on by reading many good articles on this site, then here it...
The willingness of far too many Americans to patiently accept the rationale of Administration talking points through every twist and turn, through every flip-flop, through every Presidential renunciation of previously sacred American civic principles, may at long last...
I heard a lecture by an Army psychologist who contended that after 90 days of combat, the casualty rate was 98 percent. Those not wounded physically were wounded psychologically. The other 2 percent were psychopaths. His passing remark about the psychopaths was...
In 1972, after many years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wrote: "In that time, I have seen it first as a problem; then as a stalemate; then as a crime." That aptly describes three key American perspectives now brought...
The BBC’s striking revelations regarding the secretive and disconcerting British role in making an Israeli nuclear bomb possible, deserves more than a quick pause and a few dozen news reports. It obliges a thorough investigation coupled with a complete reversal...
Back in 2003, the Brits, French and Germans entered into negotiations they hoped would result in an agreement providing "objective guarantees" to the European Union that "Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes." This agreement was to equally...
Rumors and leaks continue to swirl around the case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame and the various journalists and Bush "senior administration officials" believed to be involved in some fashion in her outing. Whole forests have undoubtedly been pulped for...
In January of this year, Rep. Curt Weldon made a speech to the House of Representatives – a speech which no one took notice of, and which hardly anyone heard, except maybe inveterate C-SPAN watchers – in which he made a number of extraordinary assertions:...
Female Circumcision Surfaces in IraqIt's just before 2:00 a.m. on the east coast, and the fifth headline from the top on Antiwar.com – immediately after the report about nine more U.S. military deaths – announces that female circumcision has, ah,...
What I have noticed about conservatives and Republicans is that they are no longer conservative and Republican. They believe in the efficacy of force. If we are losing in Iraq, it is because we are not using enough force. All we have to do to win in Iraq, they...
