So have we learned anything after three years in Iraq and two years and 10 months after the White House created a "Mission Accomplished" sign for an aircraft carrier on which President Bush spoke? Well, we learned, or were reminded, early on in the Iraq war,...
American officials, lawmakers, and pundits have been analyzing – over-analyzing is probably the right term – U.S. President George W. Bush's new National Security Strategy (NSS), leading one to conclude that the document that was issued last week has major...
In Part 1 of his interview, Chalmers Johnson suggested what that fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall, end-of-the-Cold-War moment meant to him; explored how deeply empire and militarism have entered the American bloodstream; and began to consider what it means to live in an...
Wednesday, Sibel Edmonds, former FBI language specialist and a whistleblower, filed a motion in a Washington, D.C., federal court asking for the recusal of Judge Reggie Walton from Edmonds' pending case filed under the Federal Tort Claim Act. Walton is also currently...
In his provocative documentary Why We Fight, director Eugene Jarecki asks whether Washington's foreign policy is overly preoccupied with the idea of military supremacy, and if the military has become too important in U.S. life. Jarecki interviews subjects from across...
The agreement last week between Washington and Iran to hold direct talks on Iraq has forged a new linkage between the Iraq and Iran crises. Hardliners in the George W. Bush administration are resisting any linkage between the two crises, because they want to avoid...
It isn't looking so good for the War Party. As things fall apart on the ground in Iraq, a similar process of disintegration is occurring on the home front. It seems as if there are almost daily defections from the ranks, and – as the blame game gets underway...
Invictus As a Serb from Belgrade who, like many of my compatriots, suffered heavily from the tyranny of Milosevic's criminal regime, I find Nebojsa Malic's comments on this site deeply insulting and outrageously misleading. For example, the way Malic regularly...
As he and his wife Sheila drive me through downtown San Diego in the glare of midday, he suddenly exclaims, "Look at that structure!" I glance over, and just across the blue expanse of the harbor is an enormous aircraft carrier. "It's the USS Ronald Reagan," he says,...
Imagine knocking on America's door and being told, "Americans don't live here any longer. They have gone away." But isn't that what we are hearing, that Americans have gone away? Alan Shore told us so on ABC's Boston Legal on March 14: "When the weapons of mass...
