BALI, Indonesia - As the West debates the perceived Iranian nuclear threat, leaders of the world's eight largest Muslim countries, collectively known as the D8, met on this resort island over the weekend where they asserted the right of Islamic countries to peaceful...
Reflecting Hubris
Recently, a number one billion in the New York Times stopped me in my tracks. According to a report commissioned by the foundation charged with building Reflecting Absence, the memorial to the dead in the attack on the World Trade Center, its projected...
Rise Up, Fellow
Enemies of the State
Let's take George W. Bush at his word. Last week, Bush said of the National Security Agency's telephone data mining program: "Our efforts are focused on links to al-Qaeda and their known affiliates." But USA Today and other news sources had just revealed that the NSA...
US-Iran Ties: Is the Pen Mightier Than the Sword?
Are U.S. and Iranian officials holding secret talks to try prevent the diplomatic tensions between them from deteriorating into a military confrontation? That's the question being asked now by diplomats and news organizations as they search through the current heavy...
No Game of Chess
Balkans and the Imperial "Inevitable" "Ladies and gentlemen, it does not get much more disgusting than this." Chris Deliso, frequent Antiwar.com contributor and editor of Balkanalysis.com, thus described the occupation of Kosovo going on nigh seven...
Is America Becoming a Police State?
Editor's note: Justin Raimondo's column will return Monday. In the question and answer session following a speech given at the American Enterprise Institute, Karl Rove blurted out the truth. Although no doubt inadvertent, this unusual incident of truth-telling is...
The Real Assault on America
The neoconservative Bush regime has adroitly used 9/11 to create a fear of terrorism among Americans that blinds Americans to the Bush regime's assault on our constitutional system. Americans have meekly acquiesced to the Bush regime's brutal assaults on civil...
US Fights Redress for CIA Kidnapping ‘Mistake’
The U.S. government has again invoked the "state secrets" privilege, arguing that a public trial of a lawsuit against a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for abducting and imprisoning a German citizen would lead to disclosure of...
Abolish Both the Hayden Nomination and NSA
The nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the National Security Agency's (NSA's) former director, to replace the disastrously incompetent Porter Goss as director of the CIA, should be rejected on the grounds that Hayden subverted the U.S. Constitution. In addition,...
Did Rumsfeld Lie and When?
One of the main ways modern political dialogue has gone wrong is in various people's use of the word "lying" to describe what those they disagree with are doing. If you've followed any political dialogue at all over the last 10 years, you'll know what I'm talking...


