To anyone who really believed Barack Obama's candidacy represented "hope" and "change," the selection of Joe Biden as his running mate should put that illusion to rest. Antiwar activists point to Biden's vote in favor of authorizing Bush to go to war with Iraq, but...
Updated at 11:08 p.m. EDT, Aug. 25, 2007At least 16 Iraqis were killed and 14 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. One U.S. soldier was killed in a small arms attack in Baghdad. Meanwhile, conflicting reports over a U.S.-Iraqi security pact are streaming...
Whatever hopes the George W. Bush administration may have had for using its post-9/11 "war on terror'' to impose a new Pax Americana on Eurasia, and particularly in the unruly areas between the Caucasus and the Khyber Pass, appear to have gone up in flames –...
Updated at 5:18 p.m. EDT, Aug. 23, 2008At least 49 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 90 were wounded in the latest attacks. A security operation is Diyala province continues to be the source of controversy as troops seemingly spend more time harassing...
Condi Rice – desperately seeking a diplomatic victory of some sort – has capitulated to Poland’s "key demand" that in return for allowing the siting in Poland of ten interceptors of our Ground-based Midcourse Ballistic Missile Defense system...
The U.S. missile defense program, which contributed to the deterioration of U.S.-Russian relations that helped generate the Russian-Georgian conflict, has benefited from that conflict and may cause a further downward spiral in the relationship between these two great...
We've heard how the value of the dollar affects gas prices – and indeed the price of everything. I was pleased that my request for a hearing on such was granted by the Financial Services committee and we were able to hear some very informative testimony....
Updated at 6:25 p.m. EDT, Aug. 23, 2008At least 21 Iraqis were killed and another 14 were wounded in the latest attacks. Nine Iraqis were kidnapped in two separate incidents in Diyala province as well. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, U.S. forces released...
George Monbiot has a piece in the Guardian this week ("The US missile defense system is the magic pudding that will never run out") explaining the financial motivations behind the US policy of promoting missile defense systems. His observations are fine, so far as...
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism Andrew J. Bacevich Metropolitan Books, 2008 206 pp. If there is one principle that seems to mark neoconservative thought, it is that there are no limits to American power. So long as the American people are...
