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To George Clooney and the other Americans who demonstrated and demanded that the U.S. intervene in the Darfur region of Sudan, I have a simple and clear message: Buy yourself a gun and plenty of ammunition, and go intervene yourself. In the 1930s, a tougher breed of Americans didn’t just demonstrate. They formed the Abraham … Continue reading “Want to Intervene in Darfur? Go Ahead”

Sunday’s Independent carries a piece speculating on whether former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw lost his job, in part, because the Bush regime disliked his lack of crusading fervor. Francis Elliott writes: "Jack Straw’s fate was sealed in a phone call from the White House to Tony Blair last month, according to the former foreign … Continue reading “Straw Canned Over Iran?”

All the wheels and pulleys of a very familiar narrative are swinging into motion, creaking and grating against gears, as the usual suspects grind out their war propaganda. Every day, it seems, there is some newly discovered quotation from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran in which he seems to be auditioning for the part of Hitler’s … Continue reading “The Next World War”

Comrade Cheney vs. President PutinBeing a modest student of geopolitics and the history of the great game, I have never doubted that the primary reason, the final target of America’s involvement in the Middle East is the breakup of Russia. Sure, there are other reasons as well, each playing a part, but if one would … Continue reading “Backtalk, May 8, 2006”

The United States has backed away from high-level peace negotiations with Sunni insurgent groups after meeting with them regularly over several weeks in January and February, according to an insurgent leader. Evidence of wavering by the George W. Bush administration over the negotiations came from the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, which reported Tuesday that Sunni … Continue reading “Bush’s Wavering Halts Insurgent Peace Talks”

Pursuant to a Safeguards Agreement [.pdf] concluded in 1974 with the International Atomic Energy Agency – as required by the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – Iran has been allowing IAEA inspectors to verify that no “source or special nuclear materials” are being used in furtherance of a nuclear weapons program. Then, in 2003, … Continue reading “Building Confidence”

As if rallying fading public support for keeping more than 100,000 U.S. troops in a disintegrating Iraq and preparing the ground for a possible military attack on Iran were not enough, some influential hawks are now promoting a more confrontational stance against Russia and China, as well. Their eagerness to take on new and bigger … Continue reading “Hawks Looking for New and Bigger Enemies?”

“What is lacking today is a permanent, populist, broad-based political force to challenge the worldview of the serial globalizers and the advocates of endless war. The Peace Party can be that force. The global crisis we face today makes the old Left-Right arguments over public ownership and tax rates irrelevant. Let’s have those debates later, … Continue reading “Grand Coalition”

Busy. Busy. Busy. When it comes to conjuring new enemies, this administration never sleeps. If you thought taking on the non-Israeli portion of the Middle East is a lot to put on our plate, then you haven’t got a clue as to the appetites of the Bush regime. Not only do they want to start … Continue reading “Comrade Cheney
vs. President Putin”

The decision by the jury in the six-week trial of Zacarias Moussaoui – portrayed by the prosecution as the “Twentieth Hijacker” – not to invoke the death penalty is a blow for the U.S. Justice Department and shows that the Virginia jury was not persuaded by the widespread campaign to portray the French national of … Continue reading “Moussaoui Trial Leaves Questions Unanswered”