"In reviewing the history of the English government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes." - Thomas...
Dubai Ports World: Commercial Racial Profiling
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e060221.html
At Spy Agencies, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Find illegal activity in the U.S. national security agency you work for. Report it to your superiors. Get rewarded by being demoted or having your security clearance revoked tantamount to losing your career while those whose conduct you've reported get...
Abu Ghraib Is Not Old News
Here's a number to remember: 14,000. That's the number of Iraqis currently behind bars in U.S. military prisons. These so-called "security detainees" are usually hooded and beaten when they're brought into custody. Once incarcerated, they never receive anything...
March Madness
Gholamali Haddad-Adel, "speaker" of Iran's parliament in Cuba, last week dismissed the possibility of a U.S. preemptive attack against Iran, finding it "impossible" to believe that the U.S. would want "to repeat the experience of...
Backtalk, February 20, 2006
Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer PrincipleI too formed a similar conclusion having watched the White House propaganda machine in action before, during and after the Iraq invasion of March 2003. Arnold Schwarzenegger stood before American forces fresh from their brave...
Churchill, Hitler, and Newt
You can always tell when the War Party wants a new war. They will invariably trot out the Argumentum ad Hitlerum. Before the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam had become "the Hitler of Arabia," though he had only conquered a sandbox half the size of Denmark. Milosevic then became...
I Don’t Have to Fight You
About six years ago, I boarded a small United Express airplane in Los Angeles. When I got to my row, a man was sitting in the aisle seat, and I asked him to move so that I could get to the window seat. He scowled at me but grudgingly got up to let me in. While getting...
A Sense of Déjà Vu
I rise in strong opposition to this very dangerous legislation. My colleagues would do well to understand that this legislation is leading us toward war against Iran. Those reading this bill may find themselves feeling a sense of déjà vu . In many cases...
America and Iran:
At the Brink of the Abyss
Whether the U.S. will use nuclear weapons against Iran if a military confrontation erupts is in the hands of a single person, President Bush, as stated in NSC 30 from 1948: "the decision as to the employment of atomic weapons in the event of war is to be made by the...


