In a scene that conjures memories of Mogadishu, Somalia, where Americans were murdered and dragged through the streets, the grisly killing of 4 American private security guards in Fallujah has reverberated throughout the Western media, giving rise to two reactions:...
Suicide bombers, pitched battles, and a massive police mobilization over the past three days have thrust the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan into the headlines – and demonstrated why our endless "war on terrorism" is doomed to not only fail, but to create the...
It isn't just politics that has driven Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies to number one on the bestseller list: this is one rip-roaring story, and it opens with a bang. It's September 11, 2001, and Richard A. Clarke, counter-terror "czar," is right at the center of...
Where are the weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East? Ask Mordechai Vanunu. He knows, all too well. On March 24, 1988, Vanunu was convicted of treason by an Israeli court for revealing the existence of Israel's secret nuclear arsenal at the Dimona facility,...
"They will never give the full story" – that's what former Senator Max Cleland, who resigned from the 9/11 Commission in protest over White House stonewalling, said to Amy Goodman on the "Democracy Now" radio program. But of course not. The Bushies would just as...
In today's world, where state-worship is the secular faith of our age, and the idea that "the government will take care of it" is the centerpiece and source of all political discourse, the revelations of Richard Clarke, former terrorism czar, are nothing less than...
American and other "coalition" forces try to keep order, but outbursts of ethno-religious violence break through the façade with dismaying regularity and increasing intensity. As of Thursday, 22 civilians were dead, and hundreds wounded, in the latest wave of rioting,...
The neocons wanted a new world war – and now they have it. That is the meaning of the Madrid attacks, in which 201 people were killed and over a thousand wounded, for which Al Qaeda has taken responsibility. In the run-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq,...
A year after we allowed ourselves to be lied into war with Iraq, what have we got to show for it? Rising casualties, including at least two inflicted by U.S.-trained and subsidized Iraqi police. As many as 10,000 wounded. A bill, so far, of over $100 billion, amid...
A cornered rat will fight to the death, squealing and clawing and baring its yellowed fangs – just like Max Boot in today's (Thursday's) Los Angeles Times, who lashes out at war opponents with rat-like ferocity. He doesn't say they're wrong, he doesn't dispute...
