A major policy address Monday by U.S. President George W. Bush promoting a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine has been greeted with considerable skepticism by Middle East specialists. Most analysts said Bush's speech – including his pledge to provide...
Is the United States provoking war with Iran, to begin while the Congress is conveniently on its August recess? One recalls that it was in August 1964, after the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, that the Tonkin Gulf incident occurred. Twice it was said, on Aug....
In his novel 1984, George Orwell portrayed a future time in which the explanations of recent events and earlier history are continually changed to meet Big Brother's latest purpose. Previous explanations disappear down "the memory hole." Sound familiar? Any American...
Those of us who opposed the expansion of NATO in 1999 (admitting Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic) and 2004 (Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the former Soviet republics of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania) warned that it would lead to problems with...
For those tracking the long train of abuses and usurpations of a modern-day George who would be king and his eminence grise behind the throne, July 14 has a resonance far beyond the fireworks of Bastille Day. Four loosely related events on that same day four years ago...
One of the myths created by the Israeli lobby is that Jews around the world are unanimous in their support of Israel, regardless of what it does. That's not true and never has been true. Modern political Zionism, whose ideology demands a Jewish state with a Jewish...
Updated at 12:25 a.m. EDT, July 17, 2007A major multiple bombing took place in Kirkuk where hundreds were killed or injured. Overall, at least 158 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 265 were wounded in the latest violence. Also, an MNC-I soldier died from...
A national newspaper recently ran an entertaining piece on some of the most wrong-headed predictions of modern times. There was Margaret Thatcher's 1972 claim that "there will not be a woman prime minister in my lifetime." And Ken Olsen's 1977 prediction that...
It's awfully quiet around here: everyone, it seems, is on vacation. That's what normal folks do: they take vacations. They get on a plane and go live on a beach blanket for a week, in spite of the dollar's downward dive, and drain their bodies of the accumulated...
Okay, it's another lemon, the second you've bought from the same used-car lot – and for $1,000 more than the first. The transmission is a mess; the muffler's clunking; smoke's seeping out of the dashboard; and you've only had it a week. You took it, grudgingly,...
