On July 13, John Bolton – our unconfirmed ambassador to the United Nations – vetoed a proposed Security Council resolution that would have demanded Israel halt its military offensive into the Gaza Strip. The resolution, "Condemning military assault...
One of the preoccupations of the authors of the American constitution was defining the danger posed to the new body politic by political, social, and economic factions. "By faction," James Madison, the Constitution's father, wrote in the justly famous Federalist No....
As Lebanon continues to be pounded by Israeli bombs and munitions, the justification for Israel's invasion is treading on very thin ice. It has become general knowledge that it was Hezbollah guerillas that first kidnapped two IDF soldiers inside Israel on July 12,...
"War wins nothing, cures nothing, ends nothing … in war there are no winners, but all are losers." So said Neville Chamberlain on the eve of the war he had sought desperately to avoid, but which his own blunders would bring about. Chamberlain was mistaken. War...
Conservatives, especially neoconservatives, and even some pro-Israeli moderates and liberals admire Israel's use of muscular tactics to safeguard its security. Many conservatives also admire Robert E. Lee's aggressive, offense-oriented tactical victories in the U.S....
BEIRUT - About 55 percent of all casualties at the Beirut Government University Hospital are children of 15 years of age or less, hospital records show. "This is worse than during the Lebanese civil war," Bilal Masri, assistant director of the hospital, one...
The United States is using authoritarian Arab leaders, who fear that Iran could export its revolutionary political model to their disgruntled populations and are concerned about Washington's reprisal against them à la Saddam Hussein in Iraq, as a buffer between...
Stop That Shit, Indeed Ladies/Sirs, I love your site. It and Lew Rockwell are my favorite sites on the Internet, and the ones I read most regularly. You have even published a couple of my own articles in the past. So, I am a huge fan. With that said, may I humbly...
There never was any doubt of the Bush regime's complicity in Israel's naked aggression against the Lebanese civilian population. Bush has protected Israel from world condemnation. Bush has blocked those who attempted to bring a stop to Israel's bombing of residential...
Anyone who has spent time in Turkey will find its people civil, generous, educated, and open-minded. Just don't mention the Kurds. The day after I zigzagged through a sloped, ramshackle enclave to reach the ancient Alexandrian fort of Kadifekale overlooking the port...
