As America hardens into empire, and the assumptions and conceits of imperialism become the social and political norm, the American "left" is morphing into a mutant caricature of itself: we see this in the recent decision by the San Francisco "Gay Pride" parade...
The Guantanamo Bay prison is a glaring manifestation of the political indecision which the United States has experienced since President Barack Obama's first day in office. While his second term is unlikely to deliver much of the "change" he had so industriously...
A White House letter Thursday to Congressional leaders suggesting chemical weapons use by the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad has reignited debate about direct U.S. military involvement in the war-torn country. “Our intelligence community does assess with varying...
In the current crisis on the Korean peninsula, the Obama administration is virtually repeating the 2004 Bush playbook, one that derailed a successful diplomatic agreement forged by the Clinton administration to prevent North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons. While...
The calmness with which the Empire and the EU took Belgrade's initial refusal to accept their ultimatum should have been a telling sign of things to come. The carefully cultivated quislings of Serbia weren't going off-script, but performing just as they've been...
Even as the nation recovers from the shock of the Boston Marathon bombing, the US government is under pressure to intervene in Syria on behalf of the Tsarnaev brothers' jihadist compatriots. The drumbeat for intervention in Syria has been going on for many months,...
George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. However, instead of the bloody details of his...
