Anyone following Italian newspapers lately has discovered new meaning in the words "shock and awe." In an article in La Repubblica, an unnamed SISMI (Italian secret service) agent affirms the prewar meeting in Rome among high level U.S./Italian officials and...
In case you haven't noticed, it's been a while since a top U.S. official delivered one of those wordy sermons to China or Russia about their responsibility to fix their governments, fight political corruption, and protect human rights. With President George W. Bush...
As blowback from the lies that duped us into war plunges Washington into a maelstrom of investigations and counter-investigations, Ahmed Chalabi adds insult to injury by making a return trip to the Imperial City. He's staying at the ritzy-glitzy Ritz-Carlton, where...
It seems that liberals will go to any lengths in order to protect the sanctity of President Clinton's legacy, and it is getting downright aggravating. Take Joshua Micah Marshall, the Ivy-league liberal who publishes Talking Points Memo, an enormously popular online...
My Weekend With the Wonks Leon Hadar's well-written article on his meetings with the Washington policy wonks, "My Weekend with the Wonks," is another bad omen of comparison between the Iraq war and Vietnam. Hadar says the wonks today have no clear answers to Iraq or...
The Tyrant of Bosnia Goes Home After over three years of holding near-absolute power, the tenure of Jeremy "Paddy" Ashdown as the Imperial viceroy of Bosnia-Herzegovina is coming to an end. He told the press he intended to be home for Christmas....
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and with an ongoing war in Iraq that costs more than $1 billion per week, taxpayers might think Congress has better things to do with $21 billion than send it overseas. Yet that's exactly what Congress did last Friday,...
[Three weeks ago, Nick Turse wrote a dispatch, "Casualties of the Bush Administration," about government officials who resigned or retired in protest, or were forced over a cliff by this administration. It was, in essence, a proposal for a Wall of Honor. At the...
The Arms Control Association claims that: "Through its public education and media programs and its magazine, Arms Control Today, ACA provides policymakers, the press, and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis, and commentary on arms...
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