The case that I have been making in this space – that, from a non-interventionist perspective, John Kerry may be worse than Bush when it comes to foreign policy – was boosted, if not proved, with the Democrats' denunciation of the President's plan to...
Amid the plethora of recent books on the rise of an American empire, and the veritable flood of magazine and newspaper articles on this topic, the Caxton Press, of Caldwell, Idaho, has done us all a great service by republishing the very best critique of the imperial...
The self-"outing" of New Jersey Governor James McGreevey and his involvement with Golan Cipel, described as a 30-something Israeli "poet," soon degenerated into one of those the-personal-is-the-political soap operas Americans seem to revel in. After hearing...
The tom-toms are beating, and the word is going out to neocons worldwide: Save yourselves! Anybody but Bush! Yes, I know it must be hard to believe, since loyalty is such a big deal to the neocons (as in: they don’t have any), but the word on the street is that,...
I am so preoccupied with reading Imperial Hubris, written by an "anonymous" current employee of the CIA, that I've suppressed my urge to write another one of those "I told you so" columns. I can't say I'm happy John Kerry lived up (or down) to my worst expectations,...
As the President of the United States and his reelection campaign invoked the specter of another terrorist attack on American soil – implicitly warning against the dangers of switching horses in midstream– other members of his administration were undermining...
In the world of international terrorism, both privatized and state-sponsored, passports and other identity papers are the coin of the realm. Terrorists targeting America are particularly eager to get their hot little hands on Canadian and New Zealand passports, for a...
Hey, how about those Pakistanis! They've captured more Al Qaeda operatives than all agencies of the U.S. government combined, and, in doing so, have probably done more to prevent new terrorist attacks in the U.S. than Tom Ridge ever dreamed of. Their latest coup: the...
I had to laugh out loud when I read Adam L. Penenberg's recent piece in Wired News, bemoaning the low status of the New York Times in Google's hierarchy of knowledge: "When I googled the terms 'Iraq torture prison Abu Ghraib' – certainly one of the most...
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that we're reliving the last days of the Roman Empire. Of course, that's not all bad, especially if you like peeled grapes, gladiatorial games, and those cute little tunics on men: but it isn't all fun and games,...
