MoveOn.org Surrenders I agree with your statements 100%. As a progressive lesbian feminist, I would never have dreamed I would be opposed to a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy. But my antiwar sentiments trump everything, and I would not vote for Hillary if she...
Despite objections by major Jewish organizations in Venezuela and the United States, some influential U.S. neoconservatives are charging President Hugo Chavez with anti-Semitism, which they say is consistent with the country's friendly relations with Iran. In what...
The administration of President George W. Bush has designated the spread of democracy as its principal foreign policy objective with the understanding that burgeoning democracies will make the world a better and safer place for Americans. But critics observe that...
In April 2005, I posted a dispatch in which I claimed that "a senior official in one of our intelligence agencies" had slipped me an unpublished manuscript by "the president." I added that I believed it genuine and had done my best to vet it. My source, I mentioned,...
Now that Iran has broken the seals it put two and a half years ago on an atomic research facility at Natanz, 250 km (155 mi.) south of Tehran, the threat of escalating conflict centered on the Western powers' effort to halt its nuclear activities looms large. The...
James Risen's State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, may hold bigger secrets than the disclosure that President George W. Bush authorized warrantless eavesdropping on Americans. Risen's book also confirms the most damning element of...
Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is for all practical purposes dead. They might keep his body alive, but if the bleeding was as massive as it's been reported, then chances of his regaining his mental powers are nil. Sharon was a great, though controversial,...
LONDON - Western powers are already planning use of the military option in the face of Iran's insistence that it will go ahead with what it calls its nuclear research program, a leading expert says. ''The military option is being considered already, they are just not...
With the billions of dollars appropriated by the United States for Iraqi reconstruction almost spent, Japan, Australia and other nations in U.S. President George W. Bush's "coalition of the willing" are likely to be asked to shoulder much of the burden for...
There is a "revelation" in James Risen’s latest book – State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration – that is perhaps more revealing than anyone intended. According to Risen, back in February 2000, the CIA finally found a job...
