Recent revelations that the National Security Agency has conducted broad surveillance of American citizens' e-mails and phone calls raise serious questions about the proper role of government in a free society. This is an important and healthy debate, one that too...
The George W. Bush administration has embarked on a new effort to pressure Iraq's militant Shi'ite party leaders to give up their control over internal security affairs that could lead the Shi'ites to reconsider their reliance on U.S. troops. The looming confrontation...
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Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens is right when he denounces former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Although he and I disagree strongly about the wisdom of the U.S. government's war on Iraq – he favors it and I've opposed it from the get-go –...
Syriana: It's Not About the OilMr. Peña refers to the "mysterious" Stan played by William Hurt – there is nothing mysterious about Stan. He works for the Rendon Group or the Lincoln Group or some other such private consulting contract spy organization. He is a...
How long ago was it that you last heard some pundit blather on about America being "the greatest empire since Rome"? Quite a while, I imagine. For if the Iraqi insurgency has done nothing else, it has induced a sense of humility, and of the limits of American...
Editor's note: Justin Raimondo is traveling. His column will return Friday. The participation of the Sunnis in Iraq's recent election was hailed by the Bush administration and its supporters as a great victory for the war effort and solid evidence that the...
I wish to announce that I have taken actions that have saved hundreds of American lives. What kinds of actions? That's classified. But since you write columns for a living, you must have dealt with some organizations. Who are they? That's classified. When did you take...
The Bush administration has just provided a textbook demonstration of the successful manipulation of public opinion. By repeating the theme that the United States is winning the war in Iraq for weeks, George W. Bush has now convinced 60 percent of Americans that the...
If Santa has been keeping a list, Secretary of State Condi Rice will be lucky to find even a lump of coal in her Christmas stocking. Where on the list to begin? On the Korean peninsula, where the South Korean National Security Council rebuffed Washington's contingency...
