The limitless capacity of both major parties to distract us from what's really important may be their true and only function. That thesis, at any rate, is certainly on display this election season. The Democrats are now howling that President Bush has no right to call...
The top two stories on yesterday's front page heralded an event long anticipated in my various columns on the subject: the investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame – which may soon be dubbed Scooter-gate – is about to morph into a scandal...
As George W. Bush stumbled, mumbled, and grumbled his way through a special edition of Meet the Press with Tim Russert, an unspoken question kept rising above his droning voice: is this stammering dolt really the President of the United States? On the Missing WMD...
You have to give CIA director George Tenet credit: he managed to pack more obfuscations, evasions, and outright lies into what couldn't have been more than a half hour speech than one might have thought humanly possible. The purpose of Tenet's peroration was to get...
Bush's decision to appoint a commission to examine why government officials averred with certainty that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" underscores the political side of globalization, and, as such, is not too surprising. After all, he had a model on the other...
We're on the list of top 50 news websites – and, if we don't make a success of our quarterly fundraising drive, we're practically down to our last dime. It's really kind of funny, if you think about it. I mean, here we are – three guys and as many computers...
At Antiwar.com – we get results. When Richard Perle, high-visibility neocon and co-author of a recent book that faults the Bush administration for being soft on terrorism, spoke at a rally associated with the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian terrorist group...
He is the author of a book that criticizes the U.S. government for being too soft on terrorism. He was an advocate of invading Iraq – and most of the other Arab countries in the Middle East – long before 9/11. He wants us to give up a lot of our civil...
A recent edition of Jane's Intelligence Digest maps out the next stop on this administration's road to war: Syria. Yes, everything's going according to plan. Forget George W. Bush's "road map." The real road map, plotted by a cabal of U.S. war-hawks in 1996 for then...
Pardon me while I yawn – the presidential horserace usually has that effect on me, and this time around the emanations wafting up from the track are especially soporific. Here we are in the middle of a war that could bankrupt us, both financially and morally, and...
