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 Stands the Empire?
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...
‘Democracy,’ Iraqi-Style
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...
Let’s Keep Our Eyes on the Prize
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 ...
Lump of Coal for Condi
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...
Drums in the Streets
The Protests The protests last Saturday that resulted in the jailing of 944 activists were breathtaking to behold and a breakthrough for the anti-WTO movement and the South Koreans in particular. All week the Koreans had been subjected to media scrutiny: Who are these...
Top Secret
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...
Why the War Has Already Been Lost
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...
Backtalk, December 23, 2005
World Peace Forum Moves to Create International Peace Secretariat Kudos to you for attending the Malaysian peace seminar. I missed it as I could not get a firm seat to get back home. I would have loved to have met you guys. Your Web site is great. Your thoughts are...
The Humanitarian With the War Machine
David Aaronovitch, the London Times columnist who supported the war in Iraq, is sorry. He is sorry "for Abu Ghraib and for Donald Rumsfeld. For not understanding the insurgents. For the looting. For the dire planning." He's also sorry for "the election workers...


