As we approach the second anniversary of the "liberation" of Iraq – marked by the much-touted toppling of Saddam's statue in Baghdad's main square – a simple juxtaposition of photos reveals the utter phoniness of the American project in the Middle East. Of...
When a supposedly fixed election in distant Kyrgyzstan did not meet the "democratic" standards of either the U.S. government or the European Union, it was time for yet another color-coded Western-financed "revolution." When Eduard Shevardnadze ceased to be useful to...
Over the years, as the actions of the Israeli government have become more extreme – and less concerned with international public opinion – very little of what Israel's leaders say or do seems all that surprising. Invading the West Bank and Gaza, demolishing...
The dramatic climax of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's visit to the United States will no doubt be his address to a joint session of Congress, where he is sure to receive a hero's welcome. That conclave of self-serving phonies knows a kindred soul when it sees...
Unfazed by the antiwar demonstrations that thronged the streets of London on the eve of war with Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was more concerned with the Pope's disapproval as he prepared to meet with the Holy Father. After all, this was the man who had...
So many investigations, so little time – that's a major problem these days for anyone intent on keeping up with the various scandals that plague this administration's foreign policy. There's the recently-released 500-page-plus report [.pdf] on how we were...
Robert Novak told us last year that the U.S. was headed for a "quick exit" from Iraq – and in a recent column he's holding to this prediction, crowing that he was right about Condoleezza Rice ascending to the State Department, and her deputy Stephen Hadley taking...
On the first day of Kyrgyzstan's "daffodil revolution," photogenic girls smilingly offered daffodils to police guarding the presidential palace, but in a few hours those same guards were being pushed back and beaten by drunken crowds, who surged into the seat of...
The idea that the people of Kyrgyzstan have risen up, all on their own, to establish "democracy" and the "rule of law" in a land that has never known either, is the sort of fairy tale that even the most naïve will probably greet with a considerable degree of...
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...
