Torture, the GOP, and the Religious Right

When 46 Republican senators vote against the torture of prisoners (total vote 90-9) and President Bush threatens his first veto in five years in order to thwart them, many Americans must wonder about the political and philosophical divide. Top-ranking generals...

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Radiation Limits, Dirty Bombs, and Chaos

New Orleans, of course, showed up Washington's unpreparedness for emergency response. But there's an even far greater threat on the horizon: government radiation limits and the true risks from a "dirty bomb." Realistic radiation health limits need to be...

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Landmark Conference Critiques War on Terror

An extraordinary two-day conference in Washington (much of it on C-Span) sponsored by the New America Foundation,"Terrorism, Security & America's Purpose" featured a host of scholars, elected officials, intelligence experts, journalists, an others, from Tom Clancy...

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Alaskan Oil a Key to Keeping Our Freedoms

As gas prices continue to soar, both reflecting and promoting bad foreign and domestic policies, it's time to recognize that there is another way. We don't have to be imperialists, bombing and attacking oil-rich nations. We don't need to invade and occupy much of the...

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Libertarians Face Off on Intervention

The Cato Institute and the Objectivist Center on Friday offered a full-scale inter-libertarian debate on war. Topics included "Principles Guiding Military Intervention," "Has the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq Advanced America's Interests in the Middle...

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36 Ways the US Is Losing the War on Terror

Three years and half a trillion dollars later America is losing the war on terrorism. The 9/11 Commission has warned that more and worse acts of terrorism are to be expected. Bin Laden's planning always assumed that we, in reacting to him, would help him carry out his...

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Was It All Planned? Iraq and Empire-Builders

"It all began when the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, effectively ending the Cold War and prompting the Pentagon to undertake a search for a new set of principles, in part to prevent Congress, then controlled by the Democrats, from slashing the defense...

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Cui Bono on 9/11?

Cui Bono was the Latin legal term in old Rome for investigating a crime.  Who benefited from 9/11 is the question? No one would accuse Bush of the strategy used by Roosevelt at Pearl Harbor to get America into the Second World War.  But for others in...

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Cui Bono on 9/11?

Cui Bono was the Latin legal term in old Rome for investigating a crime.  Who benefited from 9/11 is the question? No one would accuse Bush of the strategy used by Roosevelt at Pearl Harbor to get America into the Second World War.  But for others in...

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