Almost five years on from "Operation Iraqi Freedom," the neocon dreams of imperial conquest have hit the buffers. Despite the lies about the "surge" being a great success, Iraq remains in chaos: in the first week of February alone over 200 people...
False Prophets
A national newspaper recently ran an entertaining piece on some of the most wrong-headed predictions of modern times. There was Margaret Thatcher's 1972 claim that "there will not be a woman prime minister in my lifetime." And Ken Olsen's 1977 prediction that...
Grand Coalition
"What is lacking today is a permanent, populist, broad-based political force to challenge the worldview of the serial globalizers and the advocates of endless war. The Peace Party can be that force. The global crisis we face today makes the old Left-Right arguments...
Condemning the Killers Is Not Enough
Direct responsibility for Thursday's terrorist outrages in London lies, of course, with those who planted the bombs. Ultimate responsibility is another matter. In the aftermath of the carnage – only one British MP, the rebel antiwar activist George Galloway, has...