A story authored by a prominent U.S. neoconservative regarding new legislation in Iran allegedly requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive color badges circulated around the world this weekend before it was exposed as false. The article by a...
At last week's Conference on Disarmament, Stephen Rademaker, acting assistant secretary, international security and nonproliferation, submitted a draft Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) that would be acceptable to the Bush-Cheney administration. In September 1993,...
In recent weeks, the Bush administration has stated its willingness to use diplomacy in dealing with Iran, which is a welcome change from previous policy. Let's hope it's more than just a change in tone. With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan costing more than $5...
JERUSALEM - When he began contemplating his first visit to the United States as prime minister a few weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert must have thought that his plan for a unilateral withdrawal in the West Bank would win him accolades in Washington and...
"Court-martialed," says one highly-respected former DIRNSA (which, for the uninitiated, stands for "director, National Security Agency"). The comment came amid a private burst of indignation at the news that Gen. Mike Hayden had bowed to administration pressure to...
Perhaps it's appropriate in a world of wheels within wheels, secrets within lies, and deeper shadows in the shadows. But the sources I tapped in Washington and elsewhere about Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden's appointment as CIA director didn't offer a whole lot of...
The Bush regime has killed tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, mainly women and children. The deaths are excused as unintended "collateral damage" of the ongoing war, but the deaths are nonetheless important to the tens of thousands of relatives and...
The gangster is an American icon, long glamorized in folklore, film, and song, and it is therefore hardly surprising that this devotion to the cult of thuggery should manifest itself in our foreign and military policy. From Jimmy Cagney in The Public Enemy (1931) to...
April 18, 2006: America's Step Off the Nuclear EdgeMr. Hirsch:If I thought shouting from the rooftops, wearing T-shirts, blogging until the cows came home, or protesting in front of the White House or Congress would stop the nuking of Iran, I would. But it won't, not...
What is Prof. Dr. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ward Casscells' mission in the Middle East? In February 2002, Ambassador Joseph Wilson was sent by the CIA on a mission to Africa. This became publicly known in July 2003, when he published a New York Times OpEd, "What I...
