We live in a recurring nightmare. That's the only conclusion one can draw from today's headlines, which, as we draw closer to a confrontation with Iran, bear an eerie resemblance to yesterday's breaking news. It seems like only yesterday that a Middle Eastern exile...
In the day-to-day business of tracking the War Party's machinations, it's easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees: Powell out, Condi in, AIPAC spies, Chalabi's lies, Bush and Kerry, Fallujah and Allawi. But what, exactly is the bottom line? It is this: American...
The neoconservatives won't have Colin Powell to kick around anymore, who's leaving along with his sidekick Richard Armitage: with them go the last vestiges of sanity in this war-maddened administration. The general purge of Republican "realists" from the...
Like another empire founded on ideological hubris, and stained with the blood of countless victims, this one engages in periodic political purges: when one faction is vanquished, mass firings occur in the upper echelons of the bureaucracy. We don't send them to the...
The death of Yasser Arafat overshadows the re-arrest of Mordechai Vanunu, and it was, as they say, no accident: Arafat had barely breathed his last gasp when 20 to 30 heavily armed Israeli police commandos stormed the Anglican cathedral of St. George in Jerusalem,...
What next for the War Party? Like a giant anaconda after a humongous meal, the monster is hardly finished with the process of swallowing its latest prey, let alone digesting it. Yet the hunger that drives it is relentless and the creature is already eyeing the next...
Those "moral values" Republicans – you know, the ones who supposedly tipped the election in favor of the War Party – really are a hoot. Forget the Iraq war – killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians for no clear reason isn't a moral...
The presidential campaign had hardly ended before the sounds of shocked outrage and the gnashing of teeth was heard across the globe: "How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?" wailed the Daily Mirror. "This is not going to make the relationship on the two...
Well, I tried to vote for Ralph Nader, but not without some difficulty. He's absent from the ballot in California due to the very effective efforts of Democratic infiltrators in the Green Party, but our Electoral Overlords thoughtfully provided a blank space where I...
The re-emergence of Osama bin Laden in the final days of the presidential campaign was occasioned by a flurry of speculation: was OBL rooting for Bush? Or for Kerry? Good old American narcissism: it always comes to the fore. It's always about us, now isn't it? The...
