As a longtime writer, who observed four revolutions and lived with terrorism in several Latin American nations, herewith a few observations. Despite all the warnings for us to fear indiscriminate killing from Al-Qaeda, thinking about their past targets is the way to...
European Anti-Semitism and the Religious Right
New polling shows that most Europeans – 59% from 15 European Union countries – see Israel as "the greatest threat to world peace." (See Eldar article below) These views of course come from Israel's expansion of settlements, the brutal occupation,...
Eight Washington Lies About Iraq
ONE IRAQ WAS INVOLVED IN THE 9/11 ATTACK ON AMERICA OR IS CLOSE TO OBTAINING NUCLEAR WEAPONS. ANSWER: The War Party in Washington has mounted a vast campaign in conservative media to attack Iraq again. See Georgie Anne Geyer column on lobby in Anti-Arab Advocates Risk...
Eight Washington Lies About Iraq
ONE IRAQ WAS INVOLVED IN THE 9/11 ATTACK ON AMERICA OR IS CLOSE TO OBTAINING NUCLEAR WEAPONS. ANSWER: The War Party in Washington has mounted a vast campaign in conservative media to attack Iraq again. See Georgie Anne Geyer column on lobby in Anti-Arab Advocates Risk...
Bush Foreign Policy and the Failing Stock Market
Unending war, sacrificing free trade, breaking with Europe and telling allies to shove it, spending his time on planning a new war, neglecting domestic issues, making America the enemy of the whole Moslem world, disaffecting his Republican base, fumbling the battle...
Bush Foreign Policy and the Failing Stock Market
Unending war, sacrificing free trade, breaking with Europe and telling allies to shove it, spending his time on planning a new war, neglecting domestic issues, making America the enemy of the whole Moslem world, disaffecting his Republican base, fumbling the battle...
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...
‘Anti-Terror’ Bill Splits Conservatives
Voiding judicial oversight and restricting 4th Amendment limitations on government searches and seizures were the main changes to law of the new PATRIOT anti-terrorism bill according to Beryl Howell, General Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. She spoke to the...
‘Anti-Terror’ Bill Splits Conservatives
Voiding judicial oversight and restricting 4th Amendment limitations on government searches and seizures were the main changes to law of the new PATRIOT anti-terrorism bill according to Beryl Howell, General Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. She spoke to the...
Alternative to Unending War
"Bin Laden’s objective," I speculated to Hernando de Soto, Peru’s great author of The Other Path and now The Mystery of Capital, "is the expulsion of American interests from the Muslim world." "No, no," he replied, "it’s more than that. He wants...