Extraordinary renditions, torture, abuse, humiliation, detention without charge or end, an obsession with protecting American officials (and military men) from future foreign or domestic criminal charges for their acts these are the cornerstones of foreign...
Iraq and the Cardboard Democrats
Memo To: Gary Hart From: Jude Wanniski Re: The Leadership Vacuum. As you know, Gary, I did publicly announce my vote for Sen. John Kerry in last year's presidential election, even though I had earlier in the year characterized him as a "cardboard candidate."...
A Six-Party Mess
According to the New York Times; "Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, confirmed Tuesday for the first time that a Pakistani nuclear scientist had provided North Korea with centrifuge machines that could be used to make fuel for an atomic bomb, a Japanese news...
What Are We Fighting For?
Over the last four years, the message sent by neoconservatives to the rest of the nation has been clear: Get behind the Bush administration's "war on terror" or be prepared to face the consequences. But when the grieving mother of a fallen U.S. soldier tops the...
The Peace Movement: Right Before the War, Right Today
As Cindy Sheehan supporters continue their vigil in Crawford, and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) plans hearings on her resolution calling on the administration to begin planning an exit strategy for Iraq, it's useful for the growing number of concerned citizens to...
Iraq: The Democrats Are
Just As Bad
Terry Michael, the founder-director of the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism, bemoans the "nondebate" over the Iraq war that takes place in the "mainstream" media: "The most influential interpreters of our public affairs are accepting, rather than...
For Immediate Withdrawal
President Bushs speeches this week before a couple of carefully selected military audiences indicate that even the administration is becoming aware that in terms of domestic opinion we may be getting close to a tipping point in terms of support for the Iraq war....
Iran’s Growing Sway in Iraq Defies Neocons’ Logic
Anyone who still believes that the U.S. neoconservatives who led the drive to war in Iraq are diabolically clever geo-strategic masterminds should now consider Iran's vastly improved position vis-à-vis its U.S.-occupied neighbor. Not only did Washington knock...
Dying for Israel
You find anti-Semitism in the strangest of places the Democratic Leadership Council, for example. Perusing the online pages of Blueprint, the DLC house organ, I came upon this filthy piece of anti-Semitic propaganda from Will Marshall, the head of the...
Realism in Washington? Don’t Hold Your Breath
Some American pundits are suggesting that a major transformation has been taking place in the direction of the Bush administration's foreign policy. "The Bush Doctrine has collapsed, and the administration has consequently embraced realism," Gideon Rose, editor of...


