More than any other New York Times reporter, Judith Miller took the lead with stories claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Now, a few years later, she's facing heightened scrutiny in the aftermath of a pair of articles that appeared in the Times on...
Hands Off Pakistan
There has been an increase in violence in Afghanistan, and some foreign commentators have blamed Pakistan for supporting those responsible. It has been said that Afghan insurgents receive sanctuary in Pakistan, which is true, and that this state of affairs can be...
The Iraq Constitution: And They Call This Victory?
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e051018.html
A Peaceful Kick to the Groin
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has just awarded the nemesis of Bush, Bolton, Sharon and the neocrazies Mohamed ElBaradei and his staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from...
‘Flame’ Plame Blame Game
After spending 85 days in jail, protecting a source that had given her a waiver long ago, New York Times reporter Judith Miller emerged to testify in private, to prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's grand jury, and in public, to the readers of the New York Times. We...
Israel, Iran, and the US: Nuclear War, Here We Come
The stage is set for a chain of events that could lead to nuclear war over chemical weapons in the immediate future. If these events unfold, the trigger will be Israel, the target Iran, the nuclear aggressor the U.S. These are the reasons: The U.S. State Department...
What Game Theory Can Tell Us About Terrorism
In my inaugural column, it's appropriate to deal with one of last week's big events in economics: the awarding of the Nobel prize. The prize in economics went to two men for their contributions to game theory: Robert Aumann of Israel and Thomas Schelling of the United...
Bolton the Peacemaker
Well, the neo-crazies are wandering around in a daze, stunned by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to Mohamed ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, rather than to Bonkers Bolton, architect of our...
Referendum Will Change Little
BEIRUT - Iraqis will vote this weekend in a referendum that is billed as decisive for their political future, and by extension crucial for restoring order in their violence-wracked country. But the country's leaders and also the main mover behind the political...
Let’s Not Imitate the British
What I fear most for the future of our country is that our leadership seems to be developing the same arrogance that doomed the British Empire. In early 1941, the British general in charge of the Far East scoffed at the idea that Japan would attack. The Japanese...


