And the Hypocrites Who Do It In October 2004, Roger Cohen wrote a column for the International Herald Tribune titled "The Serbian Question," arguing that reducing Serbia to a more manageable size and turning it over to the benevolent hegemony of the European Union...
Leave aside the war's preface of lies. Forget about Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Pretend not to care about international law and organizations. Ignore the chutzpah of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the increase in terrorism around the world, and the awesome...
The men and women of the National Guard shouldn't be killing in Iraq. They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi. The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. And now, that effort is...
Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war. There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to...
Anyone interested in Iraq's new constitution would be advised to check out the film Return to the Land of Wonders, which focuses on the crafting of Iraq's interim constitution in the Spring of 2004. The documentary was shot by Maysoon Pachachi, the daughter of 82 year...
Arms merchants from industrialized nations are increasingly finding Asia, which has replaced the Near East as the world's top conventional-weapons market, the place to go, according to a new report [.pdf] by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Led by purchases...
This news report in the Philadelphia Times Herald might shock the average reader, but its subject is surely familiar to longtime readers of Antiwar.com: "A memorandum sent to the 9/11 Commission, and Senate and House intelligence committees in September 2004, suggests...
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George Bush, "President Participates in Social Security Conversation in New York," May 24, 2005 Forced from his...
Over the weekend, a spectrum of liberal responses to Cindy Sheehan came into sharper focus. The message is often anti-Bush… but not necessarily antiwar. Frank Rich spun out his particular style of triangulation in the New York Times. While deriding President...
Next week I will begin teaching a college seminar entitled "The Early American Republic," and the first subject we will tackle over the month of September is the framing of the Constitution of the United States and the struggle for ratification. By October...
