Just when you thought this administration couldn't get any more blatant in its effrontery about claiming and wielding power, along comes the surveillance blitz. I've talked to people who think it's because even the administration people know their legal case is shaky...
Here are a few headlines from stories you probably didn't even see this week (and they could be multiplied numerous times over): "Another day of bloodshed in Iraq" "Senior Sunni official killed in Iraq" "U.S. Private Contractors leaving Iraq" "Three Civilians, Seven...
Request For Urgent Political Intervention Dear American Citizen, First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and "top secret." Many authorities in the current regime of my home...
The newspapers and airwaves today are replete with the ominous vibes of global nuclear proliferation, with Iran and North Korea the nuclear bêtes noires du jour. Nevertheless, by far the greatest threat to civilization does not reside in rogue nukes ensconced in...
As the Bush administration tub-thumps for imposing democracy upon the entire world, many Americans have forgotten the long and bloody history of the U.S. government forcibly spreading "self-government." The following discussion, from the "Messianic Democracy" chapter...
Amid all the howls of pain and gnashing of teeth over the triumph of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, one fact remains relatively obscure, albeit highly relevant: Israel did much to launch Hamas as an effective force in the occupied territories. If ever there was a...
The stunning victory of the Islamist Hamas party in parliamentary elections Wednesday in the Palestinian Authority (PA) poses stark new challenges to U.S. President George W. Bush's hopes of advancing an Israeli-Palestinian peace process and promoting democracy...
According to numerous reports and audits released by entities such as the inspectors general (IGs) of agencies that deal with national security and various presidential commissions, today, more than four years after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, almost all...
In Bob Woodward's 2004 book Plan of Attack, the famed Washington Post journalist details a pre-Iraq war conversation that allegedly took place between President Bush and then-CIA director George Tenet regarding whether or not Saddam Hussein truly possessed weapons of...
"We must all be prepared to torture." - Charles Krauthammer, "The Truth About Torture," The Weekly Standard, Dec. 5, 2005 Note: All quotes in bold below are from Krauthammer's piece. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald announced in a press conference Wednesday that, swayed...
