Currency WarI read at the IAEA Web site ("Safeguards Statement for 2004"): "As of the end of 2004, 40 non-nuclear-weapon States party to the NPT had not yet brought comprehensive safeguards agreements with the Agency into force as required by Article III of that...
Backtalk, January 22, 2006
Gore Channels Taft Raimondo,This is why you're my favorite political writer. No one can accuse you of being a Gore fan (I'm certainly not) but you take the time to commend his honesty when he acknowledges the Democrats' share of the blame for today's sorry state of...
Backtalk, January 20, 2006
Bush Has Crossed the Rubicon Paul Craig Roberts' piece pretty much sums up the state of the state in the good ol' USA. I have been writing to you for the past couple of years and trying to tell you that you are wasting your time anticipating prosecutions and...
Backtalk January 16, 2006
MoveOn.org Surrenders I agree with your statements 100%. As a progressive lesbian feminist, I would never have dreamed I would be opposed to a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy. But my antiwar sentiments trump everything, and I would not vote for Hillary if she...
Backtalk January 11, 2006
Nuking Iran With the UN's Blessing Dear Mr. Jorge Hirsch, I agree with every single word you wrote in your above article. But I was waiting to read your suggestions as well, meaning what the world, including the U.S.A., should do concerning the irresponsible Iranian...
Backtalk, December 31, 2005
Christmas in Malaysia I attended the Perdana Peace Forum as a representative of the Malaysian Bar Council. At the start of the forum, a lady seated next to me asked me if Robert Mugabe was attending. I replied, "Not according to the program." She said that the latest...
Backtalk, December 26, 2005
Syriana: It's Not About the OilMr. Peña refers to the "mysterious" Stan played by William Hurt there is nothing mysterious about Stan. He works for the Rendon Group or the Lincoln Group or some other such private consulting contract spy organization. He is a...
Backtalk, December 23, 2005
World Peace Forum Moves to Create International Peace Secretariat Kudos to you for attending the Malaysian peace seminar. I missed it as I could not get a firm seat to get back home. I would have loved to have met you guys. Your Web site is great. Your thoughts are...
Backtalk, December 14, 2005
Israel, Iran, and the US: Nuclear War, Here We Come This article was interesting and I agree with some of it, although I must take point with parts of it. It was informative until the obvious personal biases started to shine through. To say that Israel would be...
Backtalk, December 3, 2005
The Grave Threat Is the Bush Administration The police-state mentality is only a byproduct of the greatest threat to the Republic: our own feckless and desensitized people. We have a president whose obvious third-rate intellect and long history of personal business...


