Most of the controversy surrounding the White House policy of warrantless telephone and e-mail eavesdropping has centered on whether President Bush has overstepped his authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which was created in 1978. The...
On the day that Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared in his nine thousandth video from – assumedly – the remarkably technologized wilds of the Afghan-Pakistan border region, mocking President Bush for a botched Predator-drone missile attempt on his life, another...
I was watching U.S. President George W. Bush during a live televised press conference as he was trying to give his interpretation of the victory of the radical Hamas movement in the Palestinian elections. And I was feeling kind of embarrassed for my president as he...
NEW DELHI - Now that the Western powers have reached a deal with Russia and China to refer Iran's nuclear activities to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a serious escalation of tensions with Tehran is in the cards. While Russia and China are sending...
Like many Americans, I've heard it so many times in casual conversations that I can cite it verbatim: "I'm not sure Bush is doing everything the best way, but he is our commander in chief, and we need to stand behind him during this time of war." I used to...
WASHINGTON - Large majorities of Iraqis believe that the United States has no intention of ever withdrawing all its military forces from their country and that Washington's reconstruction efforts have been incompetent at best, according to a new survey [.pdf] released...
The theme of Eugene Jarecki's thoughtful yet hard-hitting documentary, Why We Fight, is inspired by President Dwight Eisenhower's famous farewell speech, in which he warns against the rising danger of militarism as an economic system and a mindset: "This conjunction...
Breathtaking Power GrabAlan Bock wrote "I'm not so paranoid as to think they have purposely avoided capturing Osama bin Laden so as to keep the potential threat out there." I quite disagree. There exists anecdotal as well as published evidence to the contrary which...
It has been often said that war is the health of the state – but the argument could also be made that the reverse is more true: that the state is the health of war. In other words, that war – the greatest of all human evils – is impossible without the...
Now that he's under pressure to defend his domestic spying program, President Bush is suddenly very worried about Osama bin Laden. And Bush says if we had any sense, we'd also be worried about bin Laden and stop bitching about the loss of our Fourth Amendment rights....
