For months, the attention of the U.S. news media, pundits, and elected officials has been riveted on the aims of ultraconservative Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. President George W. Bush in particular has invoked Ahmadinejad's alleged drive for nuclear weapons...
Khamenei in Control
Honor the War Dead but Question America’s Wars
On Memorial Day, we should honor those who are buried after dying in the country's wars, but be a little more skeptical of the U.S. government actions that put them there. It is often said that they died for "freedom" or their "country," but more...
Gonzales Gone Wild
On Feb. 6, 2006, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales launched a convoluted attack on the Fourth Amendment before the Senate Judiciary Committee. This assault on the meaning of the Fourth Amendment is, in my estimation, the biggest leap forward for totalitarianism...
India, US Tighten Nuclear Handshake
NEW DELHI - The United States and India have taken yet another step toward finalizing the nuclear cooperation agreement they signed in July last year and more key lawmakers in Washington have expressed support for the deal. The agreement makes a special, one-time...
Showdown Over Iran
I don't believe a word of this tall tale from Ynet the online version of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's most popular daily newspaper claiming that Hezbollah is planning a terrorist attack on the upcoming World Cup tournament to be held in Germany: "The...
Civilians Die as Taliban Fights US-Led Troops
KABUL - A sudden upsurge in Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan has seen casualties mount daily among combatants and the civilian population. The rebels, who were ousted from power by U.S.-led coalition forces in late 2001, have regrouped in the southern provinces to...
George Washington Had It Right
Have you ever thought how peaceful and prosperous we would be if our national leaders had followed the advice of George Washington in his "Farewell Address"? For starters, we would not be hopelessly in debt, and there would not be so many Americans buried in national...
The Evil Is in Our Government
Is the Bush Regime a state sponsor of terrorism? A powerful case can be made that it is. In the past three years, the Bush Regime has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones. U.S. Marines, our finest and proudest military...
Israel a Winner Again in US
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could not have asked or hoped for much more surprisingly enthusiastic, if still qualified, support from U.S. President George Bush for his West Bank withdrawal plan. His speech to both houses of Congress was...
Secular Iraqis Unimpressed by New Government
Many secular Iraqis have been expressing their displeasure with the new Iraqi government that was sworn-in Saturday and introduced with much fanfare by politicians in Washington, Baghdad, and London this week. "All Iraqis know this government is totally...


