As I watched the extensive, plainly sympathetic coverage of Jewish settlers being evicted from their Gaza homes, I couldn't help but take note once again of the striking double standard applied by American news media as well as the U.S. government. I cannot recall any...
Ray McGovern works for Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC, and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. On Wednesday, he arrived home in Arlington, VA, after five days in Crawford, and...
Did you see where Russia and China are conducting "unprecedented" joint military exercises "involving air, sea and land forces"? Two countries possessing intercontinental ballistic missiles tipped with thermonuclear warheads! Thousands of them! All...
Not being as intimately acquainted as some others seem or claim to be with the ineffable methods and motives of the universe, I would hardly say that it is providential that Cindy Sheehan had to leave Crawford to be with her mother in Los Angeles, who had a stroke....
Is realism finally, definitively, back in the driver's seat of U.S. foreign policy? That's the conclusion featured this week on the op-ed page of the nation's most influential newspaper, the New York Times, in a column by the managing editor of the nation's most...
Countries that rely on "diplomatic assurances" that other countries will not torture transferred prisoners "are either engaging in wishful thinking or using the assurances as a figleaf to cover their complicity," charges a new report from Human...
Veterans for Peace (VFP), founded in Maine in 1985, marked its 20th anniversary in early August at the group's annual convention in Dallas, Texas. With over 100 chapters nationwide, and thousands of dues-paying members who've served in war and peace from WWII through...
Personal Thanks Friday night I had a visit. I came home and saw a man running to the back door. With, as I later realized, my laptop, my watch, and some cash. I called a friend, but she had little time for me: her sister in Ramat Gan had just enjoyed a similar visit;...
It's amusing to watch the utter powerlessness of the neocon attack machine as they try – without success – to smear Cindy Sheehan. Matt Drudge is heaving spittle at his computer screen, and Karl Rove must be having nightmares about this courageous albeit...
Has the U.S. public lost so much confidence in the George W. Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war that its current strategy – to the extent one actually exists – is unsustainable? With President Bush himself besieged by antiwar protesters on his...
