The top U.S. government official in charge of arms control advocates the offensive use of nuclear weapons and has deep roots in the militarist political camp. Moving into the old job of John Bolton, the administration's hardcore unilateralist nominee to be the next...
Behind the Color-Coded Revolutions
What are the color-coded revolutions about? Who's behind them and and why? What does the future hold for the American Empire? These were my questions for Justin Raimondo, and this is what he said: Stream wma Download mp3 Main Page
The United States Doesn’t Understand Latin America
RIO DE JANEIRO The U.S. government, whose proposal was voted down this week in the Organization of American States (OAS), is piling up defeats in Latin America because of a vision of the region that is "distorted" by its "war on terrorism,"...
Adieu to the Evil EU
The French may have spurned the European Union's Constitution for the wrong reasons, but overall their instincts were sound. That the pro-free market Dutch have seconded the non vote with a resounding nee ought to give pause to the collectivist superstate's illiberal...
The Only Hope to Avert Civil War
As I travel around this country speaking about my experience as an unembedded journalist in Iraq, calling for an end to the occupation, I am inevitably asked the same question: "If the U.S. military leaves Iraq, won't there be a civil war?" This, I think, is the wrong...
Backtalk, June 10, 2005
If Pinochet Is Guilty, so Is Bush"Pinochet was called to power. He put down terrorism."Is this an example of American revisionism? Feeling guilty about America's role in the Chilean overthrow? Here are some facts you seem to have overlooked.CIA Director Richard Helms...
Throwing America a Life Preserver
Professor Robert Pape's brilliant new book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism gives Americans an urgently needed basis for devising a strategy to defeat Osama bin Laden and other Islamist militants. In scholarly and low-key prose, Pape delivers the...
Europe Votes, Neocons Gloat but Why?
I happened to be in Paris on the same day that the French people rejected the proposed European Union Constitution a vote that was described by analysts in the French capital as a defeat for U.S.-led globalization and American-style capitalism. After arriving a...
Shallow Thoughts on Deep Throat
Somewhere during the aftermath of the news that Mark Felt, formerly Number 2 at the FBI, was the fabled "Deep Throat" source for then-Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, I heard former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pontificating...
The Democratic Delusion
Asked why the Ethiopian government arrested 14 opposition leaders in the wake of postelection unrest in which government troops, firing into unarmed crowds, killed 26 and wounded dozens Ethiopia's Information Minister Bereket Simon would not confirm the...


