It was June 26, 2003, and three friends – Naor Gilon, chief of political affairs at the Israeli embassy in Washington; Steve Rosen, longtime policy director and key operative of the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC); and Keith Weissman, AIPAC's...
The U.S. government doesn't like what the media is reporting in Iraq, but don't worry, they have a solution: shoot them, then arrest them. At the beginning of last month, a cameraman with CBS press credentials was shot and arrested on suspicion of "insurgent...
Two years ago Sunday, in a splashy display of his role as commander-in-chief, George W. Bush landed on board the USS Lincoln in the co-pilot's seat of a Navy S-3B Viking. Standing amid a sea of his Praetorians – against the backdrop of a huge banner proclaiming...
This Saturday is the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war, and in marking it one cannot help but note the parallels with the present intervention. Naturally, there are many differences: the nature of the enemy, the terrain, and the origins of the current...
People all across the political spectrum, encompassing all possible views on the Iraq war, stopped for a moment of rueful silence when the news broke that Marla Ruzicka was killed by a suicide bomber the other day. Well, almost everyone, that is, except for one Debbie...
It seems like only yesterday that U.S. government officials, and their media amen corner, were hailing the "turning point" in the Iraq war. The election changed everything, the insurgency is winding down, and victory is at hand – or so the conventional wisdom of...
In a case of incredibly bad timing, neoconservative columnist and author Joel Mowbray recently came out with a piece claiming that "stories on Larry Franklin, dual loyalties, and espionage for Israel look more far-fetched with each passing day." According to Mowbray,...
On April 19, 1993, agents of the U.S. government assaulted the Branch Davidian "compound" at Waco, Texas – a religious community of Adventists under the leadership of David Koresh – killing 74 men, women, and children, including 12 children younger than five...
That the world is "a carnival of buncombe," as H. L. Mencken put it, is an idea that is proved every day – nay, every hour – as the news of our leaders' cluelessness unfolds, but this past week must have had the old iconoclast shaking the earth over his...
Don't worry, say the hegemonists, be happy. Forget that we're spending far too much on maintaining the biggest military machine the world has ever seen, and throwing multi-billions more into manipulating and managing "spontaneous" movements for "regime change" around...
