In the "old days" of the U.S. peace movement, when many people focused on the threat of a global nuclear "exchange" an organization called Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) postulated what would happen if a major American city was actually...
Cindy Sheehan's valorous work at Crawford has not only set off the beginning of a new antiwar movement, but has revealed a deep chasm in American society. Not a single important Democratic leader traveled to Crawford to support Cindy Sheehan (unless you count Al...
It is important to be responsible in discussing the aftermath of what seems to be developing into the worst, most destructive national disaster in this nation's history. There is a human tendency to fix blame, and in the political arena to fix blame on one's political...
Holed up on the tenth floor of a building in downtown New Orleans, one Michael Barnett, a former Special Forces soldier who works for the domain registrar Directnic.com, sends out this distress signal: "In case anyone in national security is reading this, get the word...
With state, local, and federal officials still grappling with the extent of the devastation and human suffering inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and points east, suggestions that the already plunging political standing of President George W. Bush could...
In 1989, State Department planner Francis Fukuyama wrote his now-famous, seminal essay "The End of History." In it, he argued that humanity had reached "an endpoint in its ideological evolution" and capitalist liberal democracy would be the...
Even the disasters and tragedies that at first unite us in grief or anger – Pearl Harbor, 9/11 – end up dividing us. New Orleans will be no exception. Books are yet being written on how Kimmel and Short, the commanders at Pearl, were scapegoated. Had we not...
Iraq: The Democrats Are Just As BadIn his column, "Iraq: The Democrats Are Just As Bad," Justin Raimondo offers this as to why both parties uphold the occupation:"[I]t is the natural tendency of the Washington elites to assume the efficacy of government...
The U.S. Treasury is paying out more each month to sustain the war in Iraq than it did during the Vietnam War, according to a new report that calls the ongoing conflict "the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years." The 84-page report, "The Iraq Quagmire:...
The death toll from a stampede of Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims continued to climb Wednesday, with security officials saying nearly 800 people perished and 323 were injured when rumors of a suicide bombing sparked chaos on a Baghdad bridge. Most were trampled or fell into...
