After White House Deputy Secretary Karl Rove's lawyer confirmed that Rove spoke to at least one reporter about CIA operative Valerie Plame, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has called for a Congressional...
Pakistan Alarmed by Indo-US Defense Deal
KARACHI - Alarm and dismay have been the general reaction in Pakistan to news of a framework agreement on defense cooperation signed between India, its long-standing rival in South Asia and the United States which, only a year ago, accorded this country the...
Why Did Terrorists Strike London?
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e050712.html
China Oil Bid Tests US Free-Market Rhetoric
An unsolicited bid by the Chinese National Offshore Oil Co. (CNOOC) to buy Unocal, a major U.S. oil company, has put Washington's free-market rhetoric to the test, with disappointing results, some analysts say. The global economic rules set by the victors of World War...
Condi Kills an EU-Iranian Agreement
Even after years of go-anywhere, see-anything inspections, Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, continues to report to the IAEA Board of Governors that he can find no indication that Iran now has, ever had, or intends to have...
Boy President in a Failed World?
On Thursday morning, with the London bombings monopolizing the TV set, I watched our president take that long, outdoor, photo-op walk from the G-8 summit meeting to the microphones to make a statement to reporters. Exploding subways, a blistered bus, the dead,...
A Prescription for Fascism
If you want to hear the voice of the War Party, listen to Efraim Halevi and be very afraid. Director of the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a former head of the Mossad, Halevi presents a clear, unabashed view of...
Slavery in the Service of Liberty
A majority of Americans had finally gotten over the fearmongering that convinced them to support the invasion of Iraq. The panic and bloodlust produced by the Sept. 11 attacks had faded after nearly four years. Listen to Scott's interview with Debbie Hopper & Scott...
Nobody Attacks Civilization
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush went into their standard routine after the London bombings. This was an attack against civilization and all civilized nations, they said. That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people. The...
Terrorism, the ‘War on Terror’ and the Message of Carnage
When the French government suggested a diplomatic initiative that might interfere with the White House agenda for war, the president responded by saying that the proposed scenario would "ratify terror." The date was July 24, 1964, the president was Lyndon...


