Naïve Americans who think they live in a free society should watch the videos filmed by students at a John Kerry speech Sept. 17, Constitution Day, at the University of Florida in Gainesville. At the conclusion of Kerry's speech, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old...
Justin is traveling and his column will return on Monday. Whatever you do, don't ask John Kerry a question: you may live to regret it, as did a student at the University of Florida, who was blasted with a Taser gun by the campus "police" – while the Young...
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan contends that although it may not have been the Bush administration's motive, "the Iraq war is largely about oil." According to Greenspan, such an admission is simply "to acknowledge what everyone knows." To say the Iraq...
Be careful what you wish for – that might be the catch phrase for American relations with Iran since the CIA helped overthrow the elected government of that country in 1953 and installed the young shah in power. Much of our present world – and many of our...
Nearly two weeks have passed since Israeli warplanes conducted a mysterious raid against an as yet unidentified target in northeast Syria. Details of the incident have been slow to come, as officials from both countries have remained tightlipped. In the absence of a...
Updated at 5:40 p.m. EDT, Sept. 19, 2007At least 30 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 22 more Iraqis were wounded during numerous attacks throughout the country. Three GIs were reported killed in separate incidents.Today, an MND-B soldier was killed during combat...
Remember 10 months ago, when the Democrats, following success in the midterm elections, briefly held out the promise that they had teeth, and Donald Rumsfeld, the former strongman who had become a laughingstock, resigned his post as defense secretary? There were, at...
Instead of charting a new direction for U.S. policy in Iraq, President Bush's speech to the nation last week was an impassioned plea to the American public to stay the course. But much of Bush's argument for staying the course was based on spin instead of reality. In...
With increased U.S. pressure on Iran and Israel's small-scale invasion of Syria, the stage appears set for an ultimatum concerning Iran's nuclear aspirations that many analysts and even foreign dignitaries warn may result in war. At the same time, both Russia and...
[Note to TomDispatch readers: After a long break, this is the 13th in a series of interviews at the site. The previous 12 were collected in the book Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters.] He's a man who knows...
